Darren New wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> You're telling me it's possible to tell the difference betwee 600dpi 
>> and 1200dpi?
> 
> Yeah. You have to look close.  (And, honestly, this was before I hit 40 
> and my eyes started to get old.) But yes, it was pretty clear. I could 
> pick up a paper in my brother's advertising office and tell you if it 
> came off the Apple laser printer or the "real" laser printer, for 
> example, just by looking at the jaggies on an X or something.

Apparently I'm just weird. I can't really tell the difference between 
the old 300dpi LaserJet 6P, the 600dpi LaserJet 4100, and the 1200dpi 
Xerox Phaser.

Oh, unless you mean in greyscale or something. There it makes a 
difference...

> The same way that in the same timeframe you could look at a TeX paper 
> and tell by the crappy spacing between letters and the poor typography 
> that it was using Computer Modern fonts instead of fonts designed by a 
> typographer.

Now, see, to my eyes the Computer Modern fonts look much, much better 
than anything any other system ever produces. (Certainly TeX beats the 
**** out of anything Word produces!)

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