Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!emory!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pilchuck!ssc!fyl From: fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes) Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers Subject: Re: Laserjet III rasterization of PostScript? Message-ID: <465@ssc.UUCP> Date: 29 Oct 90 23:41:21 GMT References: Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA Lines: 31 In article , rsm@math.arizona.edu (Robert S. Maier) writes: > I'm thinking of buying a HP Laserjet III. HP makes much, in its > advertising, of the Laserjet III's new rasterization technology: the > printer's resolution is only 300 dpi, but it allegedly scales the size > of dots as needed to improve the appearance of the printed page. > > I'm a bit skeptical of that, because I plan on printing nothing but > PostScript. That means I'll be plugging in a PostScript cartridge > (HP's, or the PacificPage cartridge, or ...). Do available PostScript > cartridges actually support the new rasterization scheme? I was a bit skeptical too but I am now a believer. I was working on our new catalog a couple of weeks ago. Due to an amazing set of circumstances related to broken hardware and new software I ended up printing the sucker on a LJIII at a local store instead of having it typeset. The results were pretty impressive. The catalog is two colors, 16 pages. Some of the stuff in the catalog is pasted in (stats of covers of some of our pocket references, for example). The catalog is printed on 50# book paper with a web press. It is very hard to tell the difference between pasted-in states (that are reductions of work originally done on a Lino at 1200 dpi) from the text and other graphics that came from a PostScript file. On newsprint I doubt you could see the difference at all. On glossy paper, it would show, of course. I also compared to output to what the same files looked like printed on a Apple LaserWriter. The bottom line is that HP did a real good job and it all works fine with the HP PostScript cartridge. -- Phil Hughes, SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155 (206)FOR-UNIX uunet!pilchuck!ssc!fyl or attmail!ssc!fyl (206)527-3385