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Reviewing Object-Printer Features
Printer Reviewing Object-Printer
Features
This web section limits its discussion to object-mode printer
hardware and implementation features. Object-mode software
features are discussed in the chap-ter on challenging the
desktop publishing world. Object mode can be supported in
a variety of ways. At the low end of the price scale, you
can obtain object-mode features by adding translation software
to a PC. At the other end of the price scale, you can purchase
true object-mode printers running at 16 MHz on a 68020 with
12M of RAM.
The first object printer, the LaserWriter, was created
by Apple. This printer set the standard for object printers
in the IBM-PC world. Although early versions of this printer
had 13 fonts, all versions today have 35 fonts. Because
each PC application program must know all the details of
the printer, many IBM PC programs are configurable for the
Apple LaserWriter. If you purchase a clone of the Apple
LaserWriter for the IBM PC, you must have 35 clone fonts
that are identical to the LaserWriter.
If you purchase an alternative object printer for the Macintosh,
it may come with a different set of fonts. Screen versions
of the new printer's fonts should come with the alternative
object printer. After you load new screen fonts into the
Macintosh, all Macintosh software is capable of using them
instantly. It is ironic that Apple is setting an object-printer
definition standard for the IBM-PC world, but cannot exercise
the same control over its own market. The important point
is that there are no Apple secrets or priority software
inside a LaserWriter. This is what makes alternative object
printers a viable alternative.
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