Re: LaserWriter is wonderful but....
Posted: February 22nd, 1985, 4:12 am
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Subject: Re: LaserWriter is wonderful but....
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Date: Wed, 6-Feb-85 09:40:13 EST
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From: Brian Reid
There has been a huge amount of traffic in "Laser-lovers@Washington"
(fa.laser-lovers to you usenet folks) on the Apple LaserWriter. It would be
a shame to have to repeat it here. The observations by Harry Saal are not
really true about the LaserWriter.
* There is nothing at all in the LaserWriter ROM that decides how to do
underlining. Don't be silly. All decisions about where underlines go, and
where everything else goes, are made by the application program. This is a
bug in MacWrite, not in the LaserWriter.
[As an aside, the printer is remarkably bug-free. I have been using one for
6 or 7 months now; it is more free of bugs than any software you have seen
in a long time]
* The LaserWriter is not optimized for printing bitmap fonts. It is
optimized for printing outline fonts. On the other hand, it can print
bitmaps as fast as they can be shipped to it; if there are unseemly delays
they must also be caused by MacWrite. (I have never used the LaserWriter
with MacWrite; I use Scribe or TRoff and also create files for it by
hand with Emacs).
* The LaserWriter comes with Times Roman, Helvetica and Courier built in,
plus a symbol font. These are built in as outlines, not rasters; they work
at any size or resolution.
* Although the LaserWriter was not engineered to be used 24 hours a day, I
know people who have been using them extremely heavily for 6 months now, and
they seem to be able to take it very well. At $7K apiece they are
practically disposable by comparison with the 30 page/minute heavy-duty
printers that cost $50K. But they don't need to be disposed. They really do
last.
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From: info-mac@uw-beaver
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Subject: Re: LaserWriter is wonderful but....
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Date: Wed, 6-Feb-85 09:40:13 EST
Article-I.D.: uw-beave.781
Posted: Wed Feb 6 09:40:13 1985
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From: Brian Reid
There has been a huge amount of traffic in "Laser-lovers@Washington"
(fa.laser-lovers to you usenet folks) on the Apple LaserWriter. It would be
a shame to have to repeat it here. The observations by Harry Saal are not
really true about the LaserWriter.
* There is nothing at all in the LaserWriter ROM that decides how to do
underlining. Don't be silly. All decisions about where underlines go, and
where everything else goes, are made by the application program. This is a
bug in MacWrite, not in the LaserWriter.
[As an aside, the printer is remarkably bug-free. I have been using one for
6 or 7 months now; it is more free of bugs than any software you have seen
in a long time]
* The LaserWriter is not optimized for printing bitmap fonts. It is
optimized for printing outline fonts. On the other hand, it can print
bitmaps as fast as they can be shipped to it; if there are unseemly delays
they must also be caused by MacWrite. (I have never used the LaserWriter
with MacWrite; I use Scribe or TRoff and also create files for it by
hand with Emacs).
* The LaserWriter comes with Times Roman, Helvetica and Courier built in,
plus a symbol font. These are built in as outlines, not rasters; they work
at any size or resolution.
* Although the LaserWriter was not engineered to be used 24 hours a day, I
know people who have been using them extremely heavily for 6 months now, and
they seem to be able to take it very well. At $7K apiece they are
practically disposable by comparison with the 30 page/minute heavy-duty
printers that cost $50K. But they don't need to be disposed. They really do
last.