Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!nstn.ns.ca!news.cs.indiana.edu!samsung!usc!jarthur!jmerrill From: jmerrill@jarthur.claremont.edu (Generic User) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: ATM and HP laserjets Message-ID: Date: 28 Jan 91 20:47:35 GMT References: <402@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> <1991Jan27.192508.19247@mrspoc.Transact.COM> Sender: news@jarthur.Claremont.EDU Organization: M.Y.T.H. Inc. Lines: 16 In-reply-to: itkin@mrspoc.Transact.COM's message of 27 Jan 91 19:25:08 GMT In article <1991Jan27.192508.19247@mrspoc.Transact.COM> itkin@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Steven M. List) writes: >HP's idea in the III is that you don't NEED PostScript! The III comes >with HP PCL5, which provides scalable fonts built in, just like with >PostScript. So since you already have a builtin scalable font capability, >why (asks HP, of course) would you worry about PostScript? If you've read >any of the reviews of PCL5, they've been excellent, and it is being touted >as being at least as good as PostScript. Perhaps, but there are a lot of applications out there (take Corel Draw, for example) that produce their best output on PS printers; thus the HP PostScript cartridge for the LJ3. I'm sure that the cartridge contains Adobe's font rendering technology, since writing a converter from Type 1 to Intellifont would most likely be more trouble than it's worth. -- Jason Merrill jmerrill@jarthur.claremont.edu