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From: deng@shire.cs.psu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Help wanted: TeX printers
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Date: 19 Jun 89 15:57:18 GMT
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I am going to buy a printer for an IBM PS/2 30-286 within a month, but I
know nothing at all about printers. Please help!

My buget is $500 and the features I wanted are:

    1. TeX campatible (but I am not sure what this implies. Any 
	clarifications will be appreciated.) One thing I am concerned
	is the resolution. It is said that 300 points per inch is the
	least.
    2. Printing speed: I was told that some TeX compatible printer 
	takes 20 minutes to print ONE TeX'ed page. I would like to have
	one that prints a TeX'ed page within a minute.
    3. Paper loading: automatic loading, allowing single page loading 
	(as versus to printer-paper whose pages are head-tail linked 
	together.)
    4. Availability of the TeX driver program for the printer and its
	quality such as number of fonts, sizes of characters in each 
	font, etc..
    5. Letter quality in different fonts
    6. Reliable and easy to use and maintain. 
    7. Anything else I have not thought about but should to be concerned.

I need to know any printers that fall into the above categary and its
price (including that for the driver). Preferably, I would like to know
where and  how to get it too.

Please reply via e-mail and a summary will be posted if there are enough
interests.

Thanks in advance.

Mingqi 
   (deng@shire.cs.psu.edu, deng@psuvaxs.bitnet, deng@psuvaxs.uucp)