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- From: rang@codes.ics.uci.edu (Roger P. Ang)
- Subject: looking for letter-quality output from a cheap printer ...
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- Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
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- Date: 19 Nov 92 07:13:24 GMT
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- I'm wondering if anyone has experience with the new Epson
- dot-matrix printers, the ones advertised with resizable fonts. Are
- you able to use the resizable fonts from your word processor to get
- WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) with the printers built-in
- fonts? The reason I ask is that I have a Epson LQ500 and use an old
- version of excellence. Printing stuff in graphics mode is ugly. But
- I can't use the printers proportional fonts since they don't match
- with any Amiga fonts I have (and I doubt any can since the printer
- font widths are defined at 180th of an inch). So I've resorted to
- using topaz 11 and the non-proportional fonts. Basically it looks
- like is was done on a typewriter (makes full-justified margins look
- real bad).
- So, I'm really looking for how I can get letter-quality output
- with proportional fonts with a dot-matrix (or any printer that's
- <$300).
-
- Please reply by email since I may not read this group.
- Roger P. Ang (rang@laputa.ics.uci.edu)
- Irvine? Where's Irvine? Grad student at the
- In the heart of the Orange Curtain. Dept. of Information & Computer Sci.
- Oh no! The poor fool. Univ. of California, Irvine.
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