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From: neg@NRC.COM (Neal Goldsmith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Has anyone seen the HP Laserjet III AppleTalk Option?
Message-ID: <552@nrcvax.NRC.COM>
Date: 28 Jun 90 17:19:07 GMT
References: <4987@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: neg@nrcvax.UUCP (Neal Goldsmith)
Organization: Network Research Corp., Oxnard CA
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In article <4987@mace.cc.purdue.edu> omalley@mace.cc.purdue.edu (John O'Malley) writes:
>>In article <550@nrcvax.NRC.COM> neg@NRC.COM (Neal Goldsmith) writes:
>>> I've been waiting for almost three months to get the AppleTalk kit from HP.
>>> I had enough trouble getting the Postscript Cart ...
>>> 
>>> HP has been advertising this option for over three months! Does anyone 
>>> know what is going on?

I ordered the option from E.R.A in Palo Alto (Thanks Chris). It seems that the
AT option is VERY back ordered.

>The LaserJet took almost twice as long (almost 9 minutes) to print that
>file (vs. the IINT's almost 5 minutes), and some of the graphical elements
>were missing on the printout.  But under a magnifying glass and even to
>the naked eye the LaserJet printout had far better resolution.  (The IINT
>didn't miss printing anything, but large fonts weren't as sharp.)
>
Sounds like the LJIII only had 1MB of extra memory (the minimum). Using the
serial link for the last 2500 pages I have NEVER had a mis-printed PM 3.02 
page. I hope that the AT driver doesn't break something. I can't imagine a 
problem.





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