Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!midway!chsun1!kusumoto From: kusumoto@chsun1.uchicago.edu (Bob Kusumoto) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: HP printers and PostScript cartridge (minor review) Keywords: review HP Adobe Laserjet cartridges Message-ID: Date: 18 Oct 90 22:14:27 GMT References: <1643@chinacat.Unicom.COM> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Distribution: usa Organization: University of Chicago Lines: 23 woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal) writes: >So where do you get a Laserjet II for $900.00? After looking these >options over, the QMS ps-410 Looks pretty good. The street price is about >the same. It comes with 2 meg memory, 45 fonts, and a 68020 engine >for $2794 retail, but is only a 4 ppm machine. Unless you are really >cranking out lots of text, 4 ppm is not to bad with a 68020 driving it. >Rarely is there an application that can drive Postscript at 6 ppm >anyway. I don't think I've ever seen my 8 ppm printer do more than >6 ppm unless it is a copypage.. Well, it really depends whether your happy with the QMS personal or the HP printers. The major computer outlets around here are unloading their HP laserjet IIs for under $1000 for a while now (three months now?) so as a base for a postscript machine, its nice. Plus you get normal HP PCL3 for free to boot which isn't that bad really (other than being extremely slow switching between modes, about 1 minute for the HP or PS self test to run before going to the correct mode). Bob Bob Kusumoto | Find the electric messiah! Internet: kusumoto@chsun1.uchicago.edu | The AC/DC God! Bitnet: kusumoto@chsun1.uchicago.bitnet | - My Life with the Thrill Kill UUCP: ...!{oddjob,gargoyle}!chsun1!kusumoto | Kult, "Kooler than Jesus"