RE: GS and Laserprinters: A Saga

[bpvh@shell1.msn.fullfeed.com (Bradley VonHaden)]

slandry@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu wrote:

>        To make a long story short, everything now works like a
>charm, but I am left with a feeling of bafflement. If Quality
>makes and sells Appleworks GS, why does it only advertise
>Appleworks 5?

Quality advertises both.  On page 18 of the current II Alive, AW 5.0
and AWGS are the first two items offered.  In a quick perusal of a
few issues of Enhance, both are listed as forsale.

>And if Vitesse sells a driver that requires this version, why does
>its maunals carefully conceal this fact?

On my manual (v2.0+), in smaller type just under the "Harmonie" on
the front page is "GS/OS Printer Driver Software".  Same on the
inside title page.  The first sentence in Section 1: Introduction &
Overview reads "[P]rinting via GS/OS".  The fifth paragraph contains
the following: "[A]vailable to any GS/OS application that uses the
GS/OS Print Manager."  I am not sure they could make it more clear.

To his credit, the HP LaserJet II+ is not listed as a supported
printer.

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