🚀 go-pugleaf

Date: Tue 10 Jul 84 10:47:02-PDT
From: Joseph I. Pallas <uw-beaver!PALLAS@SU-SCORE.ARPA>
Subject: MacPaint and Imagewriter
To: info-mac@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA

For the second time someone is claiming that MacPaint deletes every
tenth scan line when printing on the Imagewriter.  I think I know how
this notion got started, and I'd like to lay it to rest.  The original
message making this claim suggested one print the active window from
MacPaint, and examine the horizontal lines at the top.  Sure enough,
when I did this, two of the lines were scrunched together.  Then I
filled the window with horizontal lines, and repeated the experiment.
Lo and behold, none of the lines were scrunched together, EXCEPT for
the title bar.  Careful fiddling with the printer revealed the truth:
the problem lies in the paper feed mechanism, which (with pin-feed
paper, at least) does not always advance precisely [especially if the
last page was torn off, pulling on the paper].

Let's put an end to the circulation of this mythinformation.  

joe
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