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From: bergman@ceres.m2c.org
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Subject: Experience with Quickdraw printers
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Date: 23 Aug 90 17:54:26 GMT
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I am planning on purchasing a Mac IIfx soon, and am thinking of getting 
a laser printer with it.  The two paths I am promarily considering are
either getting the BLP II postscript printer from GCC, or getting one
of the several QuickDraw printers available, and a software version of 
PostScript to run in the background.  Has anyone out there got experience
with the latter configuration?

Issues that have come up are these:

  what options are there for software?  Freedom of Press, for example, 
  works best with HP printers, not quickdraw printers.

  I do plan to produce mostly straight text, but would like occasional
  access to PostScript.  

  I expect that the high speed of the fx would allow it to do printer
  spooling and processing in the background without significantly affecting
  the speed of "normal" tasks such as using a word processor.  Anyone
  have experience with this?

  I've heard good things about the PLP from GCC, and the BLP looks nice 
  as well.  Any bad points?

Thanks,

--mike bergman


--mike bergman
      Massachusetts Microelectronics Center
      75 North Drive, Westborough, MA  01581, USA +1 (508) 870-0312 x262
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