Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!ists!yunexus!xrtll!silver From: silver@xrtll.uucp (Hi Ho Silver) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Postscript? Message-ID: <1990Nov19.003727.7681@xrtll.uucp> Date: 19 Nov 90 00:37:27 GMT References: <1990Nov16.071937.7911@agate.berkeley.edu> Reply-To: silver@xrtll.UUCP (Hi Ho Silver) Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.pc Organization: Not around here, pal! Lines: 25 In article kusumoto@chsun1.uchicago.edu (Bob Kusumoto) writes: $Why is it so expensive? I'm not quite sure if its still true but Adobe $used to require people to license their PDL (page descrip. lang.) for any $printers that contained them or any software package that outputed PS code. $Recently the price has been coming down. The reason why it was so expensive was that originally, there were no PostScript clones. You want PS? You licence it from Adobe. When they noticed that other people had written clones and were eating into their market share, they lowered the price. $As to what kind of printer you should get, I would probably say the best $bet would be an HP Laserjet II (not a IIP) with at least an extra MB board $if not 2 or 4MB board for the printer with Adobe's PS cartridge for the II. $You get 300 dpi output with a printer engine that does 8 ppm. Or you can Me, I'd recommend the LJ III due to its resolution enhancement tech- nology. I believe there's a true PS cartridge available for it from HP. If you haven't seen the output of an LJ III, it really isn't marketing hype - it looks far better than any other 300 dpi laser. -- HI ROGER |Nikebo says "Nikebo knows how to post. Just do it."| silver@xrtll _________|-----------------------|_______________|------------|_____________ yunexus!xrtll!silver (L, not 1) | Hi Ho Silver | costing the net thousands Silver: Ever Searching for SNTF |i need a grilf | upon thousands of dollars