User`s manual
Preliminary
Information
and
somewhat fuzzy
or
less defined. Perfect Print offers some better
solutions.
The frrst improvement is
to
swap the normal GEOS printer driver with an
interpolation driver as found on Perfect Print LQ's HQ Printer Dri,ver Disk.
This driver doesn't
just
deliver the print data from the computer to the
printer, but examines the data to create output in an entirely different way.
The
inferior GEOS resolution
is
interpolated (changed)
into.a
higher
resolution printout by intelligently inserting extra dots to provide suitable
output. This is not, however, the highest quality available from the system.
Higher print quality
is attained when the GEOS
LQ
Print System is used in
conjunction with geoWrite documents (and only geoWrite documents are
handled by this system).
The
Print System replaces the inferior on-screen
fonts during printout with high resolution
LQ
fonts. This way the
maximum print quality
is
attained -
just
as
the
font designer intended -
because this method does not use interpolation through which the fonts
could become enlarged
or
distorted. On a 9 pin printer with font sizes up to
15
points, quality is reached which exceeds that
of
all other systems. An
even better quality is reached on a 24
pit;l
printer using fonts
up
to 10
points. Slight losses in the quality may
be visible when using larger point
sizes, though these are often easily discemable.
The
GEOS LQ Print System does use interpolation routines when printing
graphics in geoWrite, when normal GEOS fonts are used, and when very
large point sizes in very high resolution are used.
Contents of the Perfect Print
LQ
Package
Perfect Print
LQ
is available in two versions: The standard package and the
complete package.
The
difference in the two packages lies solely in the
number
of
LQ fonts which are included. The standard package has 7, and the
complete package has 45.
Included
in both packages are the following:
- HQ Printer Driver Disk with HQ drivers for 9 and 24 pin printers
- Fonts optimized for use with the HQ drivers
- GEOS
LQ
Print System for geoWrite
- 7
or
45
LQ
fonts for use with the GEOS
LQ
Print System
- Programs for modifying
or
creating
LQ
fonts
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