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- From: lhighbar@umabnet.ab.umd.edu (Lane A Highbarger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Cannon vs. Epson & 720x720
- Date: 5 Mar 1996 11:16:28 -0500
- Organization: University of Maryland at Baltimore
- Message-ID: <4hhpcs$bn7@trout.ab.umd.edu>
- References: <906.6629T745T800@four.net> <BBCIzcz.mij67@delphi.com> <4hfkev$4s@tkhut.sojourn.com> <1996Mar5.041253@titan.sfasu.edu>
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- In article <1996Mar5.041253@titan.sfasu.edu>,
- <z_clevelanlt@titan.sfasu.edu> wrote:
-
- [ Epson vs. Canon ]
-
- > BUT the printer must be connected to an MS-DOS machine
- > running Windows before it will go into 720x720 mode. That really sucks
- > because I bought the thing because of its hi-res mode and separate
- > color cartridges (a real must). Until somebody writes a driver that
- > will turn on 720x720 mode you have to live with 360x360,
-
- I don't believe that. I would be willing to bet that the Studio II Pro
- driver will let you do that. I can check when I get home.
-
- > I was not impressed with the Stylus from Epson. I paid U.S. $500 at
- > Circuit City.
-
- Wow, I paid $400 for mine (Stylus color II).
-
- > The printer comes with a print head, one set of ink
- > cartridges (all four colors, the black being a double-quantity size),
- > a CD-ROM with several graphics programs (MS-DOS), good manual, 100
- > sheet feeder, and the Microsoft Windows Printing System software for
- > printing at 720x720. I am thinking of creating a 20meg MS-DOS partition
- > on my hard drive and installing that software on it, along with Windows
- > 3.1, to run with my PC-Task software. But I still want to wait for
- someone (please!) to write a driver for this feature.
-
- There is onee. The Studio Pro II driver from Wolf Faust - It controls
- all functions that I can think I would ever need + stuff like 256 level
- dithering with mulitple dither patterns.
-
- Later,
-
- Lane A. Highbarger | Budweiser, the choice of amphibians ...
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