Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cunixb.cc.columbia.edu!es1 From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: An interesting idea... Message-ID: <1991May2.024524.4192@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Date: 2 May 91 02:45:24 GMT References: <1991May1.212416.14238@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991May2.013339.18412@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: usenet@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (The Network News) Reply-To: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Organization: Columbia University Lines: 31 Nntp-Posting-Host: cunixb.cc.columbia.edu In article <1991May2.013339.18412@leland.Stanford.EDU> bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper) writes: >In article <1991May1.212416.14238@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes: >> >> I thought Dave was way off here too, but I thought we >>laid this argument to rest! You don't get PostScript anything for >>that $1795/$1295 price. You get a 400dpi black laser printer with >>no display lights. I think it is a good deal, personally. At >>$1,295 you are getting a 400dpi printer, not 300dpi like the HP >>III. > >Ooo, Ethan, you get slammed for this. I helped build those HPIII's. >They are *technically* 300 dpi, but the dots are variable-radius. The >*effective* dpi of the LaserJet III is around 600 dpi. > The HP III is definitely a major step forward. There are a lot of nice features in them admittedly. Your saying that the way they work is you can only put 300dpi but each of those dots can be of varying size? Kinda like newspaper photo techinques? That's really interesting. >> -- Ethan > >Dave Hopper | /// Anthro Creep | Academic Info Resources, Stanford > |__ /// . . | Macincrap/UNIX Consultant >bard@jessica. |\\\/// Ia! Ia! | -- Just remember: love is life, and > Stanford.EDU | \XX/ Shub-Niggurath! | hate is living death. :Black Sabbath -- Ethan "Brain! Brain! What is Brain?"