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From: jp@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Jefferson Provost)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.wanted
Subject: Deskjet PLUS vs. Deskwriter
Message-ID: <30495@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 22 Aug 90 01:57:48 GMT
Reply-To: jp@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Jefferson Provost)
Organization: Society for Visual Lunacy
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I seem to remember reading here (though I may be wrong) a couple of
postings about using the HP Deskjet PLUS as a printer for the Macintosh.

Is this possible, and if so, what's the difference between the Deskjet
PLUS and the Deskwriter?

I would figure that you could use any printer capable of producing
graphics as a mac printer, provided the printer drivers exist, so I
guess my real question should be, is there a Mac printer driver for the
Deskjet PLUS?  

The reason I ask is that Pitt's university computer store is having a
big fall sale in which they are selling both the Dj+ and the DW, but
they are advertising the Dj+ as a printer for PC compatible machines,
and the Deskwriter as the printer for Macs.  Of course, they're charging
$200 more for the Deskwriter.

I'm getting a Mac in September, and at some point I'd like to get a nice
printer for it, and I'd like to know if I'd have to spend the extra $$
for the DW, or could I just get the Dj+?

Much obliged,
Jeff
(jp@unix.cis.pitt.edu)