CUPS, laserjet 4000 with a JetDirect card
On 1/12/07, michael dolan <michaeldolan at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is a complete guess, but it might have more to do with the printer
> driver than the OS.
> You use CUPS? What kind of printer do you have? Something like a laser
> office printer that might have memory/ fonts already installed, or a little
> deskjet/inkjet? The first would get sent postscript data, which might be
> different depending on the driver, while the second probably gets sent
> something more like a raster image - more like a bitmap that would probably
> not change given a different driver.
> MD.
>
>
> On 1/12/07, Joe Fruchey <ignavia at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > My wife teaches high school English. I make her vocabulary tests for her.
> >
> > At first, I used Word, only because that's what she uses.
> >
> > Then I started using OOo/Win32 when I discovered that CTRL-Up/Down
> > re-orders lists (NICE for matching tests).
> >
> > Last night, I opened up one of the ODT files on my laptop (Ubuntu),
> > changed it, and printed it, and the page that came out of the printer
> > was very different from the ones that were printed under Windows. The
> > font was Palatino Linotype, which I have installed on my laptop. The
> > main differences were in the bold text, so I thought that maybe I
> > didn't have Palatino Bold installed, so it was using a faux bold, but
> > then I noticed that there were subtle differences in the normal-weight
> > text as well.
> >
> > Same document, same program, same printer... only difference is the
> > OS. What gives?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Joe
> >
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