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From: jkain@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Jeff Kain)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: HP Laserjet <-> Mac
Message-ID: <1991Jan28.162425.5128@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Date: 28 Jan 91 16:24:25 GMT
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Organization: Indiana University
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john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks III) writes:

>MacPrint is slow, FOP
>is much slower. 

If you can settle for the internal fonts or cartridge fonts of your
printer (which MacPrint supports) coupled with minimal use of
graphics, then MacPrint is much faster than PostScript.  But most Mac
users tend to output a lot of graphics, in which case MacPrint
(actually the serial connection) is very slow.

How much do the 57.6 kbps serial->parallel interfaces help in printing
graphics and ATM-generated fonts with Laserjets?  I've been tempted to
buy one, but they're pretty expensive (~$140).

Jeff
 
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