CompuServe Messages

Chip, I wrote you a long message on this topic (#49830) over in IBMAPP because that's where you'd last been spotted. I also called Dean Schmidt (LM sales rep) late last week to see if he could tell me anything. I've got a 300 x 600 dpi LX 6 setup here, and in addition to my day-to-day experience, I've got a bunch of direct print samples at 600 x 600, 800 x 800, and 1000 x 1000 dpi. I have to say that whereas I've always been delighted with LaserMaster, I have got some real hesitation about some–not all or even most–of what I've seen of TurboRes. The magazine page is by far the worst example, but some of the samples I have direct from LaserMaster show a related defect. Specifics are in my message on IBMAPP, which I will Email to you if it has scrolled off by now. I get the impression with the LX 6 and TurboRes that the printer is still printing at 300 dpi vertical resolution, but that the spot size (diameter) is being varied in real time as the laser scans across the drum. If that is indeed what is happening, it helps explain the defect that can occur in certain letterforms, whereby a horizontally connected group of sub-pixels (if I may call them that) simply goes blank. Those missing pieces of letters, I assume, occupy a vertical position between the actual scan lines of the laser; perhaps they are unprintable because the spots above and/or below them are white in the given character, and the beam can't just "jump" up or down to write them when the position in the direct path of the beam is supposed to stay "off." (This whole discussion is severely hampered IMHO by excessive secrecy about what exactly TurboRes does, let alone how it does it.) I would appreciate your comments or those of anyone else from your company.