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From: evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch)
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Subject: Re: How much extra memory for Postscript on LJ III?
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Date: 5 Apr 91 04:49:05 GMT
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In article <9104021822.AA17798@crayola.cs.UMD.EDU> dhosek@EULER.CLAREMONT.EDU (Don Hosek) writes:
>
>In article <9103281732.AA04893@crayola.cs.UMD.EDU>, mark@intek01.UUCP (Mark McWiggins) writes:
>> I just bought a Laserjet III and at some point would like to
>> add Postscript support.

>I personally
>wouldn't touch a non-Adobe PS cartridge. They may be cheaper but
>conversations with people who've gone with clones (including PP)
>have indicated that most of them wish they'd have bought real
>Adobe.

My jury's still out on Pacific Page. It's a good bit cheaper than the HP
Adobe cartridge, and it's faster, but it has a few quirks. My main beef
is that it won't allow bin-switching on the Laserjet IID/IIID or IIP with
the second bin attached. It also has a slight letterspacing difference
from Adobe, but I'm told this is being fixed in the new release.

Ah, the new release. Pacific Data is the only company I know that has an
upgrade policy for *hardware*. For $99 plus exchange, they'll switch any
PacificPage cart for the newest version.

If the new cart, version 4.0, fixes the letterspacing problem (a subtle
one, which only shows up when using dvips), then I'll have no qualms
with PP. I certainly can attest to the support department which has been
helpful and available. And the cost of the original cart plus the
upgrade is still hundreds less than I would have spent on the HP cart.

On the other hand, I have two experiences of being burnt golden brown
by experiences by awful HP dealers, who were fully supported in their
mediocity by HP. I'll give the company the benefit of the doubt, that
the printer division supports its products better than the Vectra
division does. If not, we Laserjet owners had all better hope these
things work well without support. I'm just damned scared to talk to that
company anymore.

-- 
Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software, located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
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