Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!jarthur!dhosek
From: dhosek@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (D.A. Hosek)
Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop
Subject: Re: Need Help Choosing Low End Laser Printer
Message-ID: <3314@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 30 Nov 89 00:21:36 GMT
References: <170@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM> <3268@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <541@enprt.Wichita.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: dhosek@jarthur.UUCP (D.A. Hosek)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Pitzer College, Claremont, CA 91711
Lines: 16

The test that I referred to was done by a U.K. university. The
area where every non-HP printer failed was in font downloading.
I don't have the time to track down the reference, although I'm
fairly sure that it appeared in UKTeX (back issues are online at
sun.soe.clarkson.edu and uk.ac.aston (for the UKers)). Incidentally,
the test predated the IID and IIP and possibly many other
"compatibles". The point was simply that one should make sure that
one's software works with the printer (even if you're buying an HP
since the software might have been tested on something else).

-dh
-- 
"Odi et amo, quare id faciam, fortasse requiris?
   nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior"          -Catullus
D.A. Hosek.                        UUCP: uunet!jarthur!dhosek
                               Internet: dhosek@hmcvax.claremont.edu