★ APPLICATIONS ★ BUREAUTIQUE ★ LSPRINT|8000PLUS) ★ |
| LsPrint | Applications Bureautique |
What do you mean you're not completely happy with the speed and quality of print of your PCW printer? What do you mean you want to use LocoScript but with a daisy wheel printer? Some people are never happy. Help is on the way from Bradway Software in the form of a program called LsPrint, a utility to print out LocoScript files on a daisywheel printer. First the disappointment: it doesn't work direct from LocoScript but from CP/M instead. This means you have to complete all your documents, save them, load up CP/M and then run the program. This may seem rather tortuous although it is a great improvement on having to turn your documents into ASCII files and losing all your fancy format commands in the process. LsPrint does simulate virtually everything (or at least a reasonable version of everything) that LocoScript can do. For instance underlining, emboldening and pitch changes are no problem. Subscript and Superscript it gets round by printing above or below the line although since daisywheels can't change the size of their text this can interfere with other lines of print. It is easy enough to use taking you through a menu system similar to LocoScript. It asks what disc your file is on and then shows you a directory of files for you to choose. Then it asks a few simple questions (like what pages you want printed) and away it goes. One annoying feature is that it returns you to CP/M as soon as this document is completed. Most people would probably have more than one file to print and especially on the 8256 where you have to swap discs; reloading the program would perhaps become tiresome. Still at £ 19.95 it is by no means expensive and certainly cuts out most of the major problems
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