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Unless you used a laser printer, geoPublish results were subpar compared to Printfox or Pagefox though, which, at least in Europe, widely dominated C-64 DTP, no
by warpspin 6y ago
Unless you used a laser printer, geoPublish results were subpar compared to Printfox or Pagefox though, which, at least in Europe, widely dominated C-64 DTP, not only because of the amount of content available in form of fonts, but also because it very early on had very specialized print drivers for dot matrix printers, which abused the known limitations of the hardware.
Output was multiply overprinted, often using a combination of tricks of using the more exact paper forwarding and printing only with a single needle to achieve very high quality prints comparable to 24 pin printers even on 7 or 8 pin printers. Awesome results for the time, but of course severely killed the ink tapes.
There's some information available here, albeit in German. Seems it never got popular outside Europe:
https://www.c64-wiki.de/wiki/Printfox https://www.c64-wiki.de/wiki/Printfox
https://www.c64-wiki.de/wiki/Pagefox https://www.c64-wiki.de/wiki/Pagefox