User`s manual
Section 3
The
HQ
Drivers
The
HQ
Driver Disk
Contained
in
this package is a disk
with
an
extensive collection of newly
developed printer
drivers.
There
are
interpolation
HQ
drivers,
"mega"
drivers,
plus some simple but fast drivers, which print in a lower quality. There
may
also be a "read
me"
file in geoWrite format located
on
the disk, which
• explains any
newly
developed printer drivers. These drivers
may
be
used
in
place
of
the printer drivers contained
on
your
GEOS
system
disk.
HQ
interpolation drivers give better print quality
and
fastest output
than
any
other type of
GEOS
printer drivers.
We
doubt that it
is
possible
to
produce
faster drivers
with
higher output quality than these. Moreover, the
24
pin
drivers are the only
GEOS
drivers
we
know of which utilize all 24 pins
when printing.
The HQ 9 pin drivers work well with all
GEOS
applications without
difficulty. The
24
pin drivers, however,
do
not work
well
with
geoCalc and
geoChart due
to
memory
conflicts. These programs
destroy
areas of
memory
normally set aside for printer drivers.
We
are continuing
to
look for a
solution to
this.
-problem,
but for the time being
you
should use 9 pin
drivers for printing
from
these applications.
All
HQ
drivers allow access to draft
and
NLQ
options, just like standard
GEOS printer drivers. For NLQ printing,
you
should
use
the
Commodore
10 point font
to
format
your document.
Quick Installation
of
HQ
Printer Drivers
If
you
want to get right into producing better printouts,
follow
the steps
in
the following paragraphs. Should
you
have trouble with
the
installation,
refer to "Installing
HQ
Printer Drivers" later
in
this section. After a
successful installation, the topic "Detailed Description of
HQ
Printer
Drivers" offers additional infolmation.
On the first side of
the
printer driver disk are
18
deskTop
pages containing
the drivers.
Copy
the printer driver appropriate
for
your printer to a work
disk and install it
using
the "select printer"
item
under the
"geos"
menu
on
the deskTop.
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