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From: owen@raven.phys.washington.edu (Russell Owen)
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Subject: Re: Laserwriter Recommendation Wanted
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Date: 25 Sep 90 19:26:08 GMT
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We just bought an HP LaserJet III. With the postscript cartridge and 
appletalk interface (both from HP) and 2Mb of RAM from Technology Works 
the whole thing was $1900 with academic discount. That's less than Apple's 
new postscript printer. And we could have had one of HP's II series 
printer for a few hundred less.

Goods:
- excellent design -- robust and adding the extra things I mentioned was 
very easy
- nice output (has resolution enhancement, which does seem to improve 
things some)
- good front panel (easy to configure things like disabling the startup 
page)

Bads:
- cannot accept a second paper tray (unlike some HP's II series printers)
- slow on complex pages but fine on normal stuff (the postscript cartridge 
uses a 68000)

MacWorld or MacUser (I think the former) rated postscript printers this 
month. Check it out.

Russell Owen
owen@raven.phys.washington.edu
Astronomy Dept. FM-20
University of Washington
Seattle, WA  98195