tlug: NTT JTeX: font problems

[Matt Gushee <matt@example.com>]

Hi folks--

Just when you thought you'd had enough of my printing problems--here I
am again!

The good news is that I finally got some Japanese out of my printer.
Since plain-text printing looked like it was going to be way more
trouble than it's worth, I went ahead to the next step--NTT JTeX. By the
way, I want to thank Steve Turnbull for his indispensable instructions
in the Linux-Nihongo pages (although I found I had to do a few things
differently--so I may contribute a few minor additions once I'm
comfortable with the way my stuff's working)

So, anyway, I have the Wadalab Mincho font and a functioning Japanese
TeX, and I have kanji coming out the other end. I'm having some quality
problems, though, and I wonder if anybody can comment on this:

When I print out I get, well, "artifacts"--little black rectangles or
trapezoids on some of the kanji. The number of them seems to vary
according to the font size--e.g., 12 point has very few, while 10 point
has more and 11 point is terrible. At any given size, they appear on all
instances of the affected character.

I wonder if the black goobers have anything to do with the many checksum
errors that I get whenever I run dvips or xdvi on a Japanese TeX file.
And I wonder if the checksum errors have anything to do with the way I
have my TeX trees set up: I built JTeX under /usr/local/lib, but I also
have a preexisting TeTeX installation under /usr/lib--and I am using the
dvips and xdvi from this old installation.

Thanks in advance for the words of wisdom.

Matt Gushee
Oshamanbe, Hokkaido
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