Re: Favorite WP/printer combo? Inkjet or laser?

[paulp@netmanage.com (Paul Pietromonaco)]

In article <4agb7p$ak6@nntp5.u.washington.edu>, ronlouie@u.washington.edu
(Ron Louie) wrote:

> What's your favorite wordprocessing/print software/printer combo?  I may 
> be doing something that will need "professional" looking reports, which 
> seems to be synonomous with laser.  Right now, I have a IIGS with a 
> Uniprint parallel card and a 9-pin Panasonic KX-P1091.  What's the 
> cheapest way to upgrade the look of the text, short of taking my 3.5's to 
> Kinko's, converting 'em to Mac files, and printing them there?

Hi Ron,
   Here's a trick I use to get really professional documents (and, if you
have GS/OS 6.0.1, you don't even have to buy anything!!).  Place the
LaserWriter driver into the Drivers folder in your system folder.   From
the control Panel DC printer, select the LaserWriter driver.  Now, using
PostScript fonts like Times and Helvetica (Palatino, Bookman and other
PostScripts fonts work too, if you have them on your GS), create your
document.  When you go to print it, after clicking OK in the "No
network-not supported" dialog box, hit an open-apple f.  You'll get a
dialog box saying "Creating PostScript File".  As you may have guessed,
your printer output has now been directed to a file in your System
Folder/Drivers directory called PostScript.GS00 (or PostScript.GS01,
etc.).  Put an 800k Mac disc into your Apple drive (you *do* have HFS
support installed, right? (^_^)) and take the file to kinko's and use any
postscript transfer utility to send the file to a PostScript laser printer
of your choice.  
   If the PostScript printer doesn't work (most Apple LaserWriters do, but
some other PostScript printers don't), use a text editor to remove the
following lines from your PostScript file:
mark
currentscreen dup type /dicttype eq
{ currentscreen (...etc... it's a long line..) ifelse} if
/spf xdf
cleartomark

   I've used this trick to print newsletters, postcards of band gigs,
etc.  You can't tell it's been done on a GS at all - especially if you're
using AppleWorks GS.
   Hope this helps!
   Paul

P.S.  If you don't have GS/OS 6.0.1, you can still use this trick.  Just
rename the LaserWriter driver to something else - I used to use
LaserWriter.DC, and the driver will show up in your DC Printer control
panel.

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