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From: mjkobb@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael J Kobb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: DeskJet, PaintJet and DeskWriter
Summary: Get a DeskWriter
Keywords: Printer HP DeskWriter
Message-ID: <434@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 4 Aug 89 21:12:31 GMT
References: <9291@pwcs.UUCP>
Reply-To: mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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In article <9291@pwcs.UUCP> brucer@pwcs. (Bruce Alan Riebe) writes:
>What Success/horror stories can you share regarding the: DeskJet,
>PaintJet and DeskWriter?  What about grappler and MacPrint
>interface?  Which of the above is better?

If you're using this thing for a Mac, I'd say go with the DeskWriter for sure.
I don't own one, but I tried one out at a dealer yesterday with some really
nasty specially-prepared files.  It worked great, and it was even faster than
a LaserWriter Plus on one of the documents (a Word 4.0 doc w/lots of different
text sizes and styles)!  The DeskWriter is specially designed for the Mac and
comes with a driver and Mac fonts.  The other printers are originally for the
IBM world, and can be used with a Mac with a special interface.  They use the
same engine, though.  The hook:  The DeskWriter is supposedly faster than the
DeskJet+ with an interface, and it should cost the same or less!  (Including
the cost of the interface...)

Also, to answer one of my earlier questions on this family of printers,
according to MacWorld, HP is working on a non-water-soluable ink for these
printers.  No promises, though.

--Mike

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