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From: palmer@sessun.UUCP (Jim Palmer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Stylewriter / Deskwriter
Summary: HP Deskwriter vs Apple Stylewriter
Message-ID: <1149@sessun.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 91 15:26:17 GMT
References: <2482@n-kulcs.cs.kuleuven.ac.be>
Organization: SES, Inc., Austin, Texas
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In article <2482@n-kulcs.cs.kuleuven.ac.be>, kpottie@icarus.cs.kuleuven.ac.be
(Pottie Karl) writes:

> Does the stylewriter use 'normal' photocopy paper ?

Yes.

> Some people said the stylewriter makes horizontal 'bands', like a
> matrixprinter does when printing large black areas. Is this bad ? I'm
> pretty sure the deskwriter doesn't do this, so I guess deskwriter output
> must be better ?

There is noticeable banding in moderate to large black areas with the
Stylewriter.  The Deskwriter produces solid blacks.

As to which produces better quality output:

The grays on the Deskwriter are much better than the Stylewriter.
The Stylewriter grays look like the printer sprinkled large black dots
over the area that is supposed to be gray.

The Stylewriter ink appears to bleed less into the paper.  This is noticeable
in thin lines and the crispness of the fonts.  The combination of TrueType
fonts and the lack of bleed produce laser quality text output.

> If printing speed and price were the same, which machine would you prefer.

If I were using it to print mainly text, I would go with the Stylewriter.
If I printed mostly graphics containing blacks and grays, the Deskwriter.

Other comments:

You wouldn't believe how slow the 1/2 page per minute (excluding imaging time)
pace of the Stylewriter feels.

Both printers use non-permanent ink.

I am still looking for that perfect printer.

-- 
               Jim Palmer
Scientific and Engineering Software, Inc.
Internet: palmer@ses.com
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