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From: benderly@cs.columbia.edu (Dan Benderly)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Advices wanted! HP DeskJet or Okidata page printer?
Message-ID: <1991Feb26.043015.7614@cs.columbia.edu>
Date: 26 Feb 91 04:30:15 GMT
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Reply-To: benderly@cs.columbia.edu (Dan Benderly)
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I have just bought an Okidata LED printer (OL-400) a couple of days ago.
In my dad'd office, we have a HP DeskJet PLus, bought about a year ago.
I decided on the Okidata because of the greater flexibility & speed it 
offers.  The Okidata take HP LJ II down-loadable fonts, which the DeskJet does
not.  The Okidata runs at 4 pages/minute, while the DeskJet runs at 2.

I can't really tell you all that much about the Okidata yet, except that 
it did, indeed, work with some (true) HP fonts, and seems to have an accurate
HP LJ II emulation.  I haven't yet torture tested it.  The start-up time for 
the first page seems to be less than that for the IIP (which my folks have
at home -- we like good quality printers).

As for the price difference, that will depend on you.  Around here (NYC) the
difference is about $150.  For me, the added font flexibility was worth it.

Good Luck!

Dan

benderly@cs.columbia.edu