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- From: aquirt@bnr.ca (Alan Quirt)
- Subject: Re: Prowrite vs. Final Copy II
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:44:39 GMT
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- In article <1imb5lINN6cv@phakt.usc.edu>, dleslie@phakt.usc.edu (David
- Leslie) wrote:
- >
- >
- > It's good to hear that Final Copy II output is of good
- > quality; now how is the speed? Specifically on a Deskjet type
- > printer. How long should one page of single spaced text take?
- > The reason I still use Word Perfect is that it will print a
- > page of Times Roman with no slow down. I sometimes have to use
- > ProPage, and it can take up to 30 minutes per page(usually about 10)
-
- My experience is about 5 minutes per page for plain black text. I am using
- FC II on an unaccelerated amiga 2000HD, with goodcolorjet driver and a
- DJ550C. For drafts, lower graphics density to 150 dpi and the time drops to
- about 3 minutes. Very fancy fonts take up to 7 minutes. I am about to order
- Wolf Faust's Studio package, which has better drivers that I hope will give
- about 25% speed improvement and full use of the 550C 4-colour capabilities.
-
- That isn't close to the speed of Wordperfect, of course. And I have not
- found a way to make Final Copy II print envelopes easily on a Deskjet. I
- set the printer to Landscape, and FC II to draft mode, but to properly
- position the address I have to insert 50 spaces at the start of each line.
- Not hard, but annoying. In Wordperfect all I have to do is change the left
- margin before the address.
-
- ... Al Quirt (aquirt@bnr.ca) ...
- ... just my opinions, of course ...
-