CompuServe Thread

David, I'm not from Gold Disk but I thought I'd give you a quick answer. Gold Disk recently posted a message which emphasized that Professional Page is NOT designed for high quality output on anything except a PostScript device. This means that LaserJet and DeskJet are only going to produce "checkprints", not real DTP output. They say that this will change in some future release, but not real soon. Meanwhile, you might want to look into a soon-to-be-released (hopefully) program from Pixelations (maybe two l's in that name) who have been on the forum here. It is called PrintScript, and it is a PostScript interpreter that will enable any printer to emulate PostScript. It will cost $89, and they specifically say that it produced fantastic quality on the DeskJet. PrintScript would thus act as the interface between Pro Page and your printer. I'm looking forward to this product since I also bought a DeskJet. The only problem I see is that the fonts included with PrintScript are very limited, and although Adobe PostScript fonts could be used, they are very expensive and come only on IBM or Mac disks. Joel

I too have a desk jet and found that if you need a really quick fix for the jaggies in the fonts, try making the page about twice as large as what you need (use 11 x 17 for an 8 1/2 x 11 page) and then use the Pixel option instead of Scale to Size in the Printer specifications. Set the Pixels to 4.0 (4 to 1, this will reduce the size of your page by about 50%) and you'll get a rather decent looking page on an 8 1/2 by 11 sheet. I spoke to Gold Disk yesterday and they mentioned that later this year there is a plan for an upgrade which "addresses the dot matrix printers." I put in a lot of kudos for the Desk Jet. We'll see what happens.