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From: ries@VENICE.SEDD.TRW.COM (Marc Ries)
Newsgroups: comp.laser-printers
Subject: Need Help Choosing Low End Laser Printer
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Date: 27 Nov 89 22:19:20 GMT
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Anyone have any opinions (8-)) or warnings, etc., about the following
laser printers?  I plan to use them with a Packard Bell 286 with some
(as yet undecided) desk-top-publishing software [basically to publish
a "newsletter with graphics"].

The Choices:

  HP LaserJet IIP       $999  (HP LaserJett II mode, 512K memory, 15 internal 
                              fonts (?), 4PPG, 300dpi, etc.)
 
  Packard Bell PB 9500: $1195 (HP LaserJet II mode, 1.5MB memory, 2 font
                              slots, 6PPG, 6internal fonts, 300dpi)

  Epson EPL-6000:       $995  (HP LJ II+ mode, 512K memory, 2 font slots,
                              6PPG, 6internal fonts, 300dpi)

  PS: The PB 9500 seems like the "Best Buy" due to the added standard
      memory.  I'm not sure what the Epson's HP LJ II+ compatibility
      gets you about HP LJ II mode.  On the other hand, buying the HP IIP
      is the "safe" bet, since you know everbody and their mother are going
      to support it.
        
  NOTE: The Pacific Data "25-In-One" and "Postscript" carts is (in their
        mode recent ad, "HP LaserJet IIP" compatible.  The memory listed
        above is standard, all can expand to 4 to 4.5MB.

-- 
Marc Ries
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