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Well, to make the list complete, here is what you get with Studio in comparison (I am the programer of Studio and because of this affiliated with the product 😉 but maybe other Studio users here can give their comments on Studio… at least in Europe Studio has become the most sold DJ driver during the past months with very good reviews): The "Studio Printer Software" is for all Amiga computers with at least WB 2.04. The drivers included are for many kinds of printers (Epson,Nec,Star,Panasonic,Seikosha, Deskjets, Laserjet and more…). Well, to make the thing short: Studio does all the things described in the previous message for the SuperDJ2. But there are many things SuperDj doesn't do in equal quality nor not at all. Studio also comes with 24 bit IFF print software. Because Studio does come with a real printed manual and because it is more powerfull than SuperDJ, it costs more than $50 🙁 But people who also think of buying TruePrint from ASDG should take a close look at Studio because they don't need anything more…. You can get "Studio Printer Software" from MacroSystem US (313-2630095). So here a list of things (I deleted the stuff for non Deskjet printers included): Studio IFF print-from-disk software ———————————– – prints IFF ILBM pictures from disk – does not require $&%$ MBytes memory! You can print 24 MB pictures with a plain 1MB Amiga. – supports most of the known IFF ILBM formats, including HAM8, IFF24, HAM, EHB and color palettes up to 256 colors. – Allows you to print poster size images spread over multiple pages. – number of copies can be defined – Using Studio you can print 24 bit-planes of color accuracy on a color printer (for instance DJ550C). If you have a black and white only printer, then you can print with 8 bit-planes of grey scale accuracy. – multiple jobs can be defined and printed in background (estimated print time and more will be displayed) – ink compensation does correct ink impurities – color adjustment (gamma, contrast, brightnes, weights,…) – Free defineable ordered dither routines. Following ordered dither matrices are already included: Haltone-A, Halftone-B, Ordered-A, Ordered-B, Spiral, Horizontal, Vertical, Bck-Brick, Fwd-Brick – Three error diffusion dither routines: Floyd Steinberg, Jarvis, Stucki – Two serpentine blue noise dither routines are included: 30% random weight, 50% random weight – ARexx Interface – font independent user interface (KS 2.04 style) – works with most printer drivers (non striping drivers are supported!) – automatic use of improved code on 68020/30/40 processors – supports multiinterface cards Deskjet WB drivers: ————— – drives all Deskjet printers (including 550 with real 4-color graphics!) – 256 greyshades (printer drivers are normaly limited to 16!) – color adjustment with 24 bit accuracy and 256 shades per color component. Easy control over gamma correction, brightness, contrast and more… – ink compensation correcting ink impurities – control over typeface (the "DeskPref" preferences program does contains a database of the latest typeface base values, allowing you to calculate a typeface family) – total control over page size and margins, line wrap, printer direction, quality, landscape…. – includes a nice font independent preferences program – free definable dither routines. Allready included: Ordered-A, Ordered-B (a adopted ordered dither curing dot gain problems), Halftone-A, Halftone-B, Line, Spiral and more… The defineable dither improve the output quality daramticly!!!!!!! – mirror function for T-Shirt printings… – timeout can be defined, avoiding this nasty "printer trouble" requester. – full control over shingling and depletion – Job end signal – arXon switchbox support – automatic use of improved code on 68020/30/40 processors – compressed graphic output does improve the speed (2-10times faster) – includes very fast PageStream 2.xx driver wich also allows control over various printer settings (depletion, shingling…) – and many more features… PinStudio ——— [deleted] Laserjet-Studio ————— [deleted] — Wolf Faust, Am Dorfgarten 10, 6000 Frankfurt 50, Germany —