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

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <4agb7p$ak6@nntp5.u.washington.edu>,
Ron Louie <ronlouie@u.washington.edu> 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?

   Install the Laserwriter driver and HFS FST from System 6. Then,
select that printer (you don't need to have one physically connected,
just a printer or modem port set to the default). When you get the
print dialog, select the options you want, then hold down Open-Apple-F
as you click 'OK'. A postscript file will be dropped in
*/system/drivers (where * is your boot disk), which you can copy to a
mac disk, and use the Laserwriter Utility (recently replaced by the
Apple Printer Utility in system 7.5 macs) on the mac to send that to
the printer.

   This'll let you use your favorite GS/OS program. Note that fun
fonts most likely won't be printed as they should be-- you get
whatever the printer has internally. (With the printer programs
described above, print out a 'font selection' page, and you can see
what it knows). All Apple laserwriters have the main fonts-- Geneva,
Helvetica, Times, Symbol, maybe 1-2 more. Laserwriter IIs (and
probably more recent stuff) have a bunch more, including Bookman,
which I used most when I had such a printer.

Nathan Mates

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