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From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: fun with postscript
Message-ID: <16416823@bfmny0.BFM.COM>
Date: 1 May 91 10:31:32 GMT
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Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
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In article <42360@netnews.upenn.edu> burgess@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Richard Burgess) writes:
>I am in the market for a new printer for home use.
>With ATM, I do not really NEED a postscript printer.

(Sure you do -- ATM doesn't solve everything.)

>However, I have had lots of fun with Goscript and 
>Ghostscript and would like to get some info on 
>potential postscript printers/cards. ...

>minimum ram needed?
>recommended ram for decent use?

Regardless of the printer or cartridge you pick, letter size 300dpi
PostScript will need at least 1.5MB of RAM.  2MB or more is even better.

>Is the TI microlaser really as good as they say?

Anyone who knows the answer is automatically one of "them." :-)  But it
is a very good little printer -- for home use I would definitely
recommend it, unless you already have a LJII or better.  
-- 
The genius of you Americans is that you never make   **  Tom Neff
any clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid  **  tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM
moves that leave us scratching our heads wondering
if we might possibly have missed something. -- Gamel Abdel Nasser