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From: freak@cbnewsc.att.com (c.e.malloy..iii)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Adobe Systems PostScript Cartridge
Keywords: Postscript, cartridge, HP Laser Jet, Laser
Message-ID: <1990Oct9.151812.3764@cbnewsc.att.com>
Date: 9 Oct 90 15:18:12 GMT
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> To use PostScript for your hardware you need to pay Adobe for a licence
> HP needs to pay Adobe for a license for its PostScript Cartridge. Adobe
> doesn't need to pay for a license, so it can undercut everyone elses price
> (specificly the true PostScript cartridge.

The word that I get is that Hewlett-Packard wanted to offer real PostScript(r)
for their laser printers. They contacted Adobe (like they could call someone
else?). Hewlett-Packard now offers a PostScript for their CURRENT line of laser
printers. Hewlett-Packard was ask by their customers when they would have a
PostScript cartridge for the now discontinued laser printer. They stated that
they would not offer it. Adobe then set about developing a cartridge for said
printer. And because Adobe has a policy of not competting with companies that
supply, they (Adobe) made sure that the cartridge that they offered would not
work in the current line of Hewlett-Packard laser printers, only in the one that
Hewlett-Packard has no intention of offering the cartridge for.

The moral? There are two.

1) I comment Adobe for it's commitment to their customers.
2) If you think that you can save some money and get the Adobe PostScript
   cartirdge for your LaserJet III instead of the Hewlett-Pachard, DON'T.
   It will not work. Adobe saw to that.

Clancy Malloy
AT&T Bell Labs

PostScript: I don't work for either Adobe or Hewlett-Packard. In fact, I don't
            even have access to any LaserJet printers. I just listen when
            people talk.