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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: CRL on January 25, 2004, 10:41:16 PM
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Hi all-
I'm thinking of my next upgrade for a A4000. I think it would be fun to work with photo touch-up software, but even with a decent printer (HP 850), the 3.9 drivers give somewhat rough, streaky pictures (way better than the old printer/drivercombo, but no bragging rights). Can someone who uses TurboPrint give me a speed/resolution comparison? Does the Turbo affect Final Writer, Pagestream 2.3, Brilliance (which maybe have their own custom drivers)?
Thanks for any advice-
CRL
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Turbo print is a must for any Amiga user
I have had every version since 2 and the upgrades were well worth the price. If you have a PPC things can really fly. I use finalwriter to print a Postscript file and then turborpint prints the postscript file to my printer in half the time it would take finalwriter to print.
With turboprint you get true 24bit printing.
the quality is outstanding and far exceeds the print quality I get from Windows and from Linux.
I haven't purchased turboprint for linux yet.
A couple of years ago I switched from printing masters on my Amiga to Windows. People did not know what I did, But everybody complained that the image quality was nowhere near as good as it used to be. So I switched back to my Amiga and everybody was happy again.
So to answer your question YES, YES and YES.
get turboprint and you won't be sorry.
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Hi kgrach-
Thanks, sounds like the TurboPrint is what I want. Question- does it get the speed by sending ascii to the printer fonts (like transcript does, and every old style wp)? That really blazes for speed. Another question, are the images you spoke of pictures (as in photographs of people or things)?
Thanks again- can't wait to get this and install it.
CRL
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I'd get turbo print myself, but it doesnt seem to support my Brother HL-1440 laser printer. I havent found a way to use it at all on the amiga. I would say this is the one thing that is keeping me from being able to use only my amiga for daily computing use. Even my Mac has problems using it.
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it does both depending on what your programs are sending out. It gets its speed by optimized drivers. The printer masters I was talking about where Combined text and Picture documents.
remember windows uses 12bit printer drivers dithered to 24. Turboprint uses true24 bit drivers makes a big diference on print quality.
If you have the RAM I recomend that you don't use turbospool as it really slows down your entire machine. Turbospool spools large documents to your hard drive before sending them to the printer. Turboprint also allows you to print postscript with non postscript printers. you just copy any postscript file to PS: and bingo postscript printing. Lots of options and even has the test and cleaning utilities for your Epson and HP printers. Does the mirror and negative printing options for making photo masks and T shirts and stuff real sweet.
It doesn't really matter what you want printed it all comes out great but there are lots of prefs to set. so read the documentation for opt results. The only downside of it all is you will go through lots of ink playing with all the options.