NewDeal Technical Support Document 272
Specific Printer Notes, NEC
This document contains notes about using NEC
printers with NewDeal software
Note: You must have NewDeal software to use NewDeal print drivers.
NewDeal print drivers will not work with other Windows, OS/2, or DOS programs.
NEC 8023, 8025
NEC P9XL
NEC Silentwriter 2 Model 90 (PostScript)
Version 1.0 of the software may not work properly
with the NEC 8023 and 8025 because these
printers have trouble keeping track of the form length when line
feeds other than 1/6 inch in length have been employed. This
means that graphic printing confuses these printers, and they
will not correctly find the next top-of-form. The solution is
to print one page at a time and keep track of the paper's position
by hand, sending line feeds to reach the next TOF. This problem
was corrected in version 1.2.
The P9XL is a mid-width carriage version of the P6/P7
line. If you want all the high resolution features of the P9XL,
use the P7 driver. This will let you select paper that is too
wide for the printer, so just don't select these sizes from the
print dialog box. Or use the Epson LQ-1500 driver.
When printing on a NEC Silentwriter 2 Model 90 (PostScript)
certain fonts (Cooperstown, Greenville) come out a little bolder
and a little more scrunched together--to the point of slight illegibility--than
when using the non-PostScript HP emulation (which is much slower).
You don't necessarily get true WYSIWYG when printing PostScript.
For PostScript printing, our software uses the built
in Adobe Type 1 fonts whenever possible (e.g. Times Roman in place
of URW Roman). For non-built-in fonts (e.g. Cooperstown), our
software downloads Adobe Type 3 fonts.
There are two main functional differences between
Type 1 and Type 3. Type 1 is hinted whereas Type 3 is not, so
at very small sizes, Type 1 fonts will generally look a little
better than Type 3. Also, Type 1 fonts use a slightly different
fill rule than Type 3. Type 1 fonts only turn a dot on if it the
majority of it is within the bounds of the character, whereas
Type 3 fonts turn on a dot if any of it is within the bounds of
the character.