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I agree that 9 dot printers are not very good. However, I printed some
text by TeX on Epson FX 800 (I think it is the worst 9 dot epson) and it
looks like a typeset text. If you look at it from a distance, you cannot
distinquish it from HP LJ-II (provided there are neither figures nor vertical
lines). I saw the printout of WP 5.1 on STAR LC-10 (9 dot, genarally the
quality is better then cheap epsons) and the mathematical equatins were
terrible. It is not easy to make it print Czech letters (it printed French
and Danish) while in TeX there is no problem.

Of course, the printer is slow. It takes about 5 minutes per page, so it may
be disqualifying for large documents.

My conclusion is:
if you need just SOME printed text with NO demands on quality, no special
formatting requirements, then just take the simplest text editor and print
it as a plain ASCII file.
If you want a pretty printout, use TeX. If the document is large, you can
almost always find a faster printer somewhere and you can prepare a binary
file if they don't have TeX installed (I do it because I don't have LaserJet).
If you need a pretty printout but don't like TeX, then forget about WP and
use PageMaker, Ventura, MS-WORD or a similar powerfull tool. But it will
cost you money...

Best regards
           Zdenek Wagner