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From: jordan@Apple.COM (Jordan Mattson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!!
Message-ID: <46371@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 7 Nov 90 20:32:31 GMT
References: <1990Nov6.212848.10254@agate.berkeley.edu> <508@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> <1990Nov6.232454.18981@agate.berkeley.edu>
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In article <1990Nov6.232454.18981@agate.berkeley.edu> knrgroup@garnet.berkeley.edu (Raymond group) writes:
>jtgorman@cs.arizone.edu (Quaestor) writes:
>>Sure, the NeXt printer has better resolution than Macs and it's cheaper,
>>but the price difference is not because NeXT thinks everyone should have
>>a laser printer, but because it is a dumb printer.  It relies on the
>>PostScript interpreter in the NeXt computer...
>
>Perhaps Apple should think about putting a PostScript interpreter into their
>computer so Mac laser printers wouldn't be so expensive.  This is all the
>more reason to buy a NeXT.
>
>>Also, the new Personal LaserWriter NT is not that more expensive than a that
>>price for the NeXT printer.
>
>However, it ain't a PostScript printer and you can't do with it what you could
>do with a NeXT/NeXT laser printer combo.  

Dear Friend -

Excuse me, but the LaserWriter NT is a PostScript printer!  Also, though this
may have changed, I saw an incredible performance hit in printing to a 
NextPrinter for the original cube.  

-- 


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