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- Tips for Generating Better/Faster Graphic Dumps
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- Faster
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- 1. If you are dumping a 1 bitplane image select the B&W mode in preferences.
- This is much faster than a grey-scale or color dump.
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- 2. Horizontal dumps are much faster than vertical dumps as they use the
- blitter to read the pixel data.
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- 3. Smoothing doubles the print time. Use it for final copy only.
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- 4. F-S dithering doubles the print time. Ordered and halftone dithering
- incur no extra overhead.
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- 5. The lower the density the faster the printout.
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- Better
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- 1. Friction fed paper tends to be much more accurate than tractor fed
- paper in terms of vertical dot placement (ie. less horizontal strips or
- white lines).
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- 2. Densities which use more than one pass tend to produce 'muddy' grey-scale
- or color printouts. It is recommended that you not chose these densities
- when doing a grey-scale or color dump.
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