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Oct. 13th, 2008 02:02 pmI don't know whether it's Adobe or the people who write printer drivers to blame here, but...
Seriously. I know the device prints black dots on a regular grid. I know the device's resolution. I supply an image, of that resolution, consisting of nothing but completely black dots on a completely white background. I don't want anything clever done to it. I don't want this image to be scaled, "enhanced", downsampled before being halftoned, or otherwise postprocessed in any way. I just want the pattern of black dots I supplied to be dumbly printed verbatim.
My old 24-pin dot matrix printer could do this. My second-hand Laserjet can do this. Morag's cheapo inkjet can do this. Xerox's £20000 laser printers, it appears, cannot.
Is it really so bloody hard?
Seriously. I know the device prints black dots on a regular grid. I know the device's resolution. I supply an image, of that resolution, consisting of nothing but completely black dots on a completely white background. I don't want anything clever done to it. I don't want this image to be scaled, "enhanced", downsampled before being halftoned, or otherwise postprocessed in any way. I just want the pattern of black dots I supplied to be dumbly printed verbatim.
My old 24-pin dot matrix printer could do this. My second-hand Laserjet can do this. Morag's cheapo inkjet can do this. Xerox's £20000 laser printers, it appears, cannot.
Is it really so bloody hard?
