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Re: tex v. WP5.1

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From: Carl Douglas Mueller
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 03:06
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In article <714102154snx@n5ial.chi.il.us> jim@n5ial.chi.il.us (Jim Graham) writes:
>In article <1992Aug14.023630.7178@disk.uucp> tony@disk.uucp writes:
>
>[I] make a photocopy of my printer's output (to take care of
>the fact that the darkness isn't 100% uniform), and you basically can't
>tell which is which, even looking very close.  not just my opinion, but
>the opinion of lots of people who I've asked to tell me which was
>which......and those who refuse to believe that my documentation was
>printed on a dot-matrix printer, period.
>

I know this doesn't belong here, but I HAVE to say this.  A laser printer 
IS a dot matrix printer.  360 dpi is 360 dpi.  The photocopying to make the
darkness uniform (assuming that it is a high quality copier) should make the
outputs fairly indistinguishable.  Laser printers have their advantages, but
they're not magic.  They are dot matrix printers.  (Sorry, but it's a pet
peeve of mine that people don't think of laser printers as using a matrix
of dots.)

Carl Mueller (mueller@math.wisc.edu)
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From: mueller@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Carl Douglas Mueller)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: tex v. WP5.1
Message-ID: <1992Aug19.030637.19197@schaefer.math.wisc.edu>
Date: 19 Aug 92 03:06:37 GMT
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