... part of the original design. I suspect that Incunabula printers used textual context to inform their selection of a particular sort of ... to add gain to the digital image before printing it. Most laser printers have black-writing technology (and a more complex two-component ...

Forum topic - George Horton - 4 Apr 2006 - 10:58am - 163 comments - 0 attachments

... help maintain good output at higher resolutions such as printers. If you do not care about print output, or you do not care about black ... he likes in Quartz remind me a bit of what happened when laser printers went from 300 dpi to 600 dpi. All of a sudden, users were ...

Forum topic - dberlow - 20 Mar 2006 - 1:28pm - 158 comments - 0 attachments

... typographic at smaller sizes. Unfortunately, PostScript printers seem exponentially more expensive that laster printers with PostScript ... color reproduction (especially for contone images), while laser printers will usually provide sharper and truer type. But regardless of ...

Forum topic - alexfjelldal - 17 Mar 2006 - 1:01am - 7 comments - 0 attachments

I’m looking to buy a 1200dpi laser printer to use primarily for developing type designs. I’ve been ... i was looking, it seemed like the only true Postscript printers run at least $1000 and well over, which was out of my price range. ... picking you might try picking something up second-hand. laser printers are pretty reliable, much better than ink-jets, and by going the ...

Forum topic - micthemod - 25 Mar 2006 - 5:33pm - 4 comments - 0 attachments

... When outputting to medium- to high-resolution devices like laser printers and film, bad hinting or even no hinting is not such a big problem. ...

Forum topic - Goran Soderstrom - 14 Mar 2006 - 8:47am - 16 comments - 0 attachments

... in the italic). then i learned that it was designed for laser printer use. i’m wondering if these features have some functional ... printing”, one is talking about xerographic devices. Printers such as the HP Indigo, use liquid “ink”, but the process ...

Forum topic - istitch - 23 Mar 2006 - 1:32pm - 6 comments - 0 attachments

... on Bitstream Charter, one of the first fonts designed for laser printers. The resemblance is so close that Charis SIL includes Charter’s ...

Forum topic - sii - 16 Mar 2006 - 11:51am - 3 comments - 0 attachments

... an HP 1020 LaserJet . it is the most inexpensive laser printer i’ve been able to find and i like the fact that i can ... i don’t have the funds to buy a super high quality laser printer but i just want to make sure it will work for the purpose of ... Fontographer 4 on 10.3 and 10.4 › The low-end HP printers are The low-end HP printers are perfectly adequate as office ...

Forum topic - istitch - 5 Feb 2006 - 10:37pm - 11 comments - 0 attachments

... for my first job (non-profit). And when I went to a printers web site I saw their requirments for printing, and I’m a little ... you create your PDF to test print the separations to a laser printer to make sure your colors separate correctly and that extra plates ...

Forum topic - 3dsnail - 30 Jan 2006 - 9:13pm - 6 comments - 0 attachments

... output of four of my fonts! You just start to think your Laser printer is telling you the truth and pull the usual toner boner. LINO ... did have my suspicions about the back rooms of the Printers. How much do one of these Linotronic outputs cost? Kris, When ...

Forum topic - dezcom - 12 Jan 2006 - 5:13pm - 27 comments - 0 attachments