Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!uicvm.uic.edu!u12570
From: U12570@uicvm.uic.edu (Ed Garay)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: New Information on LaserJet IIIP?
Message-ID: <91121.111534U12570@uicvm.uic.edu>
Date: 1 May 91 16:15:34 GMT
References: <42359@netnews.upenn.edu>
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Lines: 35


   In article <42359@netnews.upenn.edu>, burgess@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
   (Richard Burgess) asks:
   >
   >Someone said it has been released--is this for real?

Yes, it is. Here is the information I have on it thus far.

The LaserJet IIIP has the same print engine, speed and size as the IIP.
Like all others in the LaserJet III family of printers, the IIIP comes
std with the following features:
  + HP's Resolution Enhancement Technology (RET)
  + PCL5 (HP's most feature-rich printer command language to date,
    with some PostScript-like features and functionality)
  + HPGL/2 (HP's newest graphics (plotter) language)
  + 8 scalable fonts (four Times-Roman and four Univers (like Helvetica))
  + 14 bitmappped fonts
  + 1MB RAM
  + PostScript upgradable

The IIIP lists for $1,595 with a probable street price of about $1,000.

According to InfoWorld, Volume 13, Issue 17, the IIIP can use the same
memory boards as the IIP, III and IIID for a maximum of 5MB of RAM.
Other IIIP features include a 16MHz CISC processor and a parallel port
that accepts data at a rate four times faster than that of the IIP.

For more information contact HP at 1-800-752-0900.

[Note: I am not affiliated with Hewlett Packard. I only use some
of their products, and I am, for the most part, satisfied with them.]

--- Ed Garay
    University of Illinois at Chicago, Computer Center
    Internet: u12570@uicvm.uic.edu     Bitnet: u12570@uicvm