Re: Write white vs. write black laser printers

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From: Guido van Rossum
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 1988 22:32

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The industry is certainly aware of this problem (my brother is getting a
summer job patching up fonts for a company producing white-writing laser
printers), but I believe there are quite a few LW clones on the market
which, for obvious reasons, don't address the problem.
Perhaps Adobe's PostScript font-producing algorithms are tuned for
black-writing, which may be one of the reasons output from black-writing
LW's looks better.
--
Guido van Rossum, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), Amsterdam
guido@piring.cwi.nl or mcvax!piring!guido or guido%piring.cwi.nl@uunet.uu.net

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From: guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum)
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Subject: Re: Write white vs. write black laser printers
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Date: 20 Jun 88 22:32:41 GMT
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