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From: Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix)
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Subject: Re: About HP Laserjet IIP
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Date: 10 Mar 91 02:46:36 GMT
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john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks Iii) writes:

JAW> This is a LaserJet, so it will not transparently with the Mac. 
JAW> You will need to get a Mac+ to ImageWriter 1 cable to make it 
JAW> work, and purchase a printer driver (such as MacPrint). The fonts 
JAW> supplied with the printer drivers will probably not have the 
JAW> variety that you want, so you will need to get Adobe Type Manager. 

Yeah, if you're talking about the $700-$800 plain-Jane LaserJet IIP.  For $1599 street ($2195 retail) you can get it with more RAM, AppleTalk, and PostScript v52.2 (same as the Apple Personal NT).  In effect, you get the functionality of an Apple Personal NT (which uses the identical print engine as the HP) for about $800 less.  The HP controller uses a 10 MHz 68000; I don't know how this combined with the HP PostScript cartridge compares to the 12 MHz 68000 processor on the Apple-designed Personal NT cont




roller board.  I've heard it's slower.  For $800 and identical PostScript, and identical fonts, I can handle a bit slower.

The HP IIP for the Mac (as it's called, available at your HP dealer as we speak) doesn't come with the lower 250 sheet letter size paper tray, like the Apple Personal NT does; I think that doohickey retails for $195.

(And as for cables, a standard Mac to ImageWriter II cable will substitute just fine for LocalTalk cabling if all you're doing is hooking up one computer to one printer.  I did just that for about a month, and it worked dandy.)

I think for $800 less than the Apple, the HP IIP is a good deal.  And, of course, one can buy the plain HP IIP for $800 or so to begin with, and add the memory and AppleTalk and PostScript later.

(Hint:  anyone getting the HP IIP over the Apple Personal NT might want to see if he can dig up the Apple LaserWriter driver version 6.0.2.  Nice stuff.)

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