TurboPrint 7.50 - Ripoff

[Hyperspeed]

Oh great, now I'm noticing on the Irseesoft website.

It did go to version 7.60 within a month of me buying 7.50 and now
they want 45 euros to upgrade!

Grrr!

I'm angry that what they promised in the adverts wasn't delivered, in
fact I think I read about it from the news section on Amiga.org!

The amount of printers they are supporting is ridiculous. You can't
dedicate your effort to get the most out of one printer when there is
about 50x on that list.

Better if they worked on 1x HP, 1x Epson and 1x Canon and said "Look:
buy this printer and we'll do you a really good driver". Better than
make crap for ALL the printers.

:-/

Anyway, I've written to them to ask them what's going on and why
TP7.50 doesn't activate microweave and stuff. Hopefully I'm just
ranting over nothing.

[kgrach]

I found out for many years TP printed faster and better than my windows machines becuase windows up to XP had 12 bit printer drivers not 24 bit.

Also I use the PS printing feature alot and it works great install Ghostscript and now all you do is copy a PS file to PS: device and bingo Postscript printing on your non postscript printer.
I use a small script with final writer becuase I can create a postscripte file and print it several times faster than printing with final writer straight.

heck tp still prints better than XP to my HP Laser printers
windows tends to spool data too fast and overflows the buffer resulting in me getting partial prints.

you problem is more than likely a bug in the driver for your printer type or User error.

RTFM
I am thinkinfg user error especially since you have yet to mention what setttings you are using.





kgrach

[JaXanim]

I've not fully gotten to grips with TP7.60's PostScript/GhostScript printing, but what I have managed so far is very impressive.

I think it's only fair to note that no classic Amiga is gonna turn out a 24-bit colour prints as fast as a Pentium based machine. Even an 060/66 Amiga is slow. What is clear, the image quality produced by the Graphics Publisher is unlikely to be bettered by a typical PeeCee setup. That's my opinion anyway.

Cheers,

JaX

[Hyperspeed]

I bought a Pentium¹ 166Mhz MMX last year and decided to do a fair experiment.

I printed the same picture out, with the same printer and same paper etc with both an Amiga '060 and the Win '98 166Mhz.

The 166Mhz PC was 2x as fast and at double the resolution to the '060 Amiga. Quality was also double that of Turboprint using the official Epson driver.

If you wish to read what settings I was using refer to the start of my thread, believe me I have "RTFM".

;-)

I've been printing photos on TurboPrint since version 5 back in 1997 I think it was.

What I have yet to understand is the Postscript feature, it is possible that by spooling a printout I might not get the banding I get with my 740... but that never happened on the Stylus 600 so it wouldn't matter.

Anyone reading this, how do you use Postscript and what's it for? I thought it was for lasers? I think 1440dpi should work without Postscript though; maybe I'm being too picky with my magnifying glass.

:-D

One gets to see the difference mostly on large areas of subtle colours such as pastels. The PC was eventually sold to pay for loads of ink carts and paper, it was pretty old and big but it was nice to see how the other side live.

:-D :-D :-D