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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
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Subject: Re: bubble-jet
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Date: 6 Mar 91 00:08:33 GMT
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In article <1170019@hp-vcd.HP.COM> neff@hp-vcd.HP.COM (Dave Neff) writes:
>
>From what I have heard about the new "StyleWriter" (Apple's name),
>its advantages over the DeskWriter are:
>
>1) It is cheaper (probably about $150 street price cheaper).

And, for some of us, should have a student discount...  (hopefully enough
that I can afford to get rid of this ImageWriter I, and stop running to
the campus lasers whenever I need something other than text)

>
>2) It comes with True Type fonts for pre-system 7 systems.  The DeskWriter
>uses its own font scaling technology.

Everyone I know who has it uses ATM, so maybe that isn't such an advantage.
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