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>In article <9101222213.AA17502@msri.org>, rdong@MSRI.ORG (Rui-Tao Dong) writes:
|> 
|> 	We have a SparcPrinter installed recently. It is supposed to be
|> able to print at 300 dpi or 400 dpi. My first question is how do I use the
|> 400 dpi capability? I used dvips -D 400 to produce a PostScript file and
|> then sent it to the SparcPrinter by using lpr. The result was actually
|> worse than that at 300 dpi. I guess there should be an option to print it
|> at 400 dpi.

Another response addressed printer customization but, in the case of
dvi, to obtain the best results it is also important that tex fonts
be generated (by Metafont) using a modedef for a 400 dpi device. 
In all likelihood, the resident fonts on your system were generated
for 300 dpi printers.
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