The Personal LaserWriter SC suffers from the same problem as the
LaserWriter IISC and the ImageWriter LQ: when printing outline, bold and
shadow text in 18 point or larger type sizes, some parts of the characters
may be omitted and/or garbled. The problem usually occurs when
4X fonts are used. Installing more system RAM and/or allocating more
memory to the application will have no effect on the problem.
In March of 1991, this problem is fixed by using TrueType-compatible
printer drivers. Apple introduced the TrueType font scaling software
which is bundled with both the StyleWriter and the Personal LaserWriter LS
printers. The TrueType compatible drivers are available on a Macintosh
Printing Tools disk which contains the drivers for the following printers:
Printer Version
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LaserWriter 6.1
ImageWriter 6.1
AppleTalk ImageWriter 6.1
Personal LaserWriter SC 6.1
Personal LaserWriter LS 1.0
ImageWriter LQ ImageWriter 6.1
ImageWriter LQ AppleTalk ImageWriter 6.1
StyleWriter 1.0
In May of 1991 another solution was made avaliable with the release of
System 7. System 7 includes a new Printing disk and Tidbit disk which
contain printer drivers for the following:
Printer Version
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LaserWriter 7.0
Personal LaserWriter SC 7.0
ImageWriter 7.0
AppleTalk ImageWriter 7.0
LQ ImageWriter 7.0
LQ AppleTalk ImageWriter 7.0