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- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 09:21:00 GMT
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- From: "Mark D. Szuchman, History,
- Florida Int. Univ." <SZUCHMAN@SERVAX.BITNET>
- Subject: LaserTwin 5.0 & NB
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- For those who have dot matrix printers or laser printers (HP or other brands),
- a software product called Laser Twin 5.0 is available to emulate the scalable
- sizes and type faces of the HP III. i tested the product yesterday using NB4
- and a NEC P2200XE and can report success. For readers of PC Magazine, there
- is a sidebar on this product about two issues back dealing with the ninth
- annual printer megareview.
- The software can and normally does act as a TSR, occupying 29k of conventional
- memory or zero when loaded high, and can be unloaded, leaving no residues.
- The installation process calls for the printer that one is really using and
- noth much else. Then, in NB, you install and activate the driver for the
- HP-III, and type as normall, placing all the typefaces and point sizes you
- need or want or think you want. Once you use the F9 Print F10 commands, a
- window appears from within NB4 reporting Laser Twin's progress in sending the
- output to your printer, which soon begins to produce text. One can also
- printo to disk for subsequent printouts.
- The upside is obvious: one is no longer limited to the fonts of one's own non
- HP-III printers.
- The downside is the slower rate of output, since the process consists of an
- interception of the HP-III drivers of your software, the interpretation of the
- page, and then the output to your printer. In the NEC P2200XE, the printhead
- makes two passes, and one must assume that the same will occur with other
- printers -- after all, how else can a dot-matrix printer come up with the
- quality and density of laser fonts?
- Finally, the offer includes Laser Twin's softfonts that emulate every HP
- cartridge from A to Z plus 9 others ("SuperFonts 25+9").
- The price is $79.95 plus shipping. Tech support is available (not an
- 800 number), and, of course, an 800 number is avaliable for sales: (800)
- 697-6971. The person at the other end of the line when I called was also able
- to answer some technical questions I had prior to purchase. The list of
- compatible printers is very long and includes laser jets, desk jets, bubble
- jets, and, of course, dot matrix printers.
- Mark D. Szuchman, History, FIU
-