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Article #4368Re: LBP-SX: write black or white?
From: Bruce Langdon
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1988 23:07
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1988 23:07
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In article <661@noao.UUCP>, grandi@noao.arizona.edu (Steve Grandi) writes:
> Is the Canon LBP-SX laser printer engine (used in the newly announced Apple
> Laserwriter IIs) a write-black engine (like the engine in the Laserwriter)
> or a write-white engine?
Since small marks, including parts of characters, come out differently on
write-black and write-white, I think descriptions of printers should always
say which they are. But this information is seldom given.
Since I am tooled up for write-black, a write-white printer is a non-starter.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!ncsuvx!lll-winken!lll-lcc!langdon From: langdon@lll-lcc.aRpA (Bruce Langdon) Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: LBP-SX: write black or white? Message-ID: <1453@lll-lcc.aRpA> Date: 24 Jan 88 23:07:56 GMT References: <661@noao.UUCP> Organization: Lawrence Livermore Labs, Livermore Ca Lines: 14 Summary: let's always announce whether printers are write black or white