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In <H.eg.OrqZKspCnj2@wpcst1.phys-chemie.uni-wuerzburg.dbp.de> kruel@wpcst1.phys-chemie.uni-wuerzburg.dbp.de (Thomas-Martin Kruel) writes:
>  Everything works fine except that the output on a SUN SparcPrinter 
>is very poor. The characters come out cribbled, e.g. you can't 
>recognize the vertical bar of an `e' and so on.

dvips includes bitmap representations of the fonts used into the postscript
file. The postscript utilities tell the printer to shrink that bitmap which
is a lossy process. If you work with scalable fonts this problem is overcome
by 'hints' in the font description that f.e. tell the renderer to leave the
vertical bar of an 'e' at least 1 pixel wide. This is not possible with the
bitmap fonts you use.

There are two solutions. 1) Tell dvips to use 600dpi fonts (which hopefully
exist or can be calculated with metafont). This most likely will give enough
resolution so that you don't miss details. 2) Use scalable Postscript fonts.
Dvips supports virtual fonts for the standard Postscript font families. There
are some styles for TeX and LaTeX that exchange the standard Computer Modern
fonts with Postscript fonts.

Regards,
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