Re: ____ Laser writers & bad attitudes: why Apple = TOAST !!!

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From: Peter Kerr
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 00:00

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mkl@rob.cs.tu-bs.de (Mario Klebsch) wrote:
> I doubt you will lose 600 dpi when the postscript driver things the
> printer has 300 dpi. In PostScript you describe what you want to print
> and not what the printer is capable of printing. The printer will try
> its best to render the page. I know almost no need to know the
> printers resolution in a PS program other than downloading the page as
> a bitmap. But PostScript never was made for this purpose.

If a printer has dual resolution, switchable enhancement, and other level2
features, Apple's .ppd will tell the print driver all about it. The print
driver should be clever enough to let you take advantage of this
flexibility. The options appear on your Pagesetup and Print dialogs. If
Windoze' driver is so stupid it can't take advantage of this info, then
you lose :-(

-- 
Peter Kerr                             bodger
School of Music                        chandler
University of Auckland                 neo-Luddite

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From: p.kerr@auckland.ac.nz (Peter Kerr)
Subject: Re: ____ Laser writers & bad attitudes: why Apple = TOAST !!!
Date: 1995/11/12
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