Re: dvips TeX printer driver

[brownh@hartford-hwp.com (Haines Brown)]

> Is it possible that the font your text files come out as (as rendered
> by the printer) is a thicker or heavier font than the font you are
> using in your TeX/LaTeX documents?  I assume when you print plain text
> is comes out in some default printer font, whereas when you print
> postscript, I think the file contains the font information.  (We're
> beginning to go beyond my understanding, so I could be wrong about
> this.)  But, I do know that the default TeX/LaTeX font is computer
> modern (typically) and it is a pretty light font.

I think you put your finger on it. The fonts are clearly different,
and I do recall that the default for LaTeX is Computer Modern.

Thanks, 

Haines Brown