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From: hugh@dgp.toronto.edu (D. Hugh Redelmeier)
Subject: Re: HP Laserjet IIP
Message-ID: <1991Feb3.011103.15327@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
References: <1991Jan31.054635.6992@cs.uiuc.edu>
Distribution: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Date: 3 Feb 91 06:11:03 GMT
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gillies@cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies) writes:


>  Is anyone using a IIP with their
>macintosh?  How well does it work, and can you compare it to a
>deskwriter? 

We (my family) use an HPIIP with a Mac+ for light-duty printing.

- We use the PD DeskJet driver from Finland.  It is great!

- This driver will use the IIP's bitmap compression if you don't
  tell it you are using an LJ (DJ's always had this compression
  but the IIP is the first LJ to support it)

- Printing is fairly slow (19.2K BPS vs bitmaps).

- We use 150DPI resolution for speed & to reduce the collection of
  font bitmaps that we need.

- We only have the standard 512K RAM in the printer.  This has not
  been a problem.  Perhaps it would be if we used 300DPI.

- Others say that this setup would be improved by the use of ATM.

Hugh Redelmeier
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