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From: dente@els.ee.man.ac.uk (Colin Dente)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re:  Laserjet IIp / Series 400
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Date: 20 May 91 15:10:36 GMT
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In article <9105101354.AA01451@richter.mit.edu> krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz) writes:
>HP sells printer support packages for HP laserprinters and HP plotters 
>as an extra-cost add-on. They are roughly $150 each. They are listed
>in the HP/Apollo Direct catalog. The packages contain the proper cables
>for the built-in parallel interface of the series 400 machines along
>with the software drivers.
Or, indeed, for the serial interface of a DN box if you buy the serial
option instead of the parallel one.

>                            I have no experience with HP's packages,
>so I can't comment on reliability, bugs, features, etc.

Features are good - I just got the Laserjet support kit, and it seems
to do everything I want - with the exception of supporting
software/cartridge fonts (they say this may be added later).  As for
reliability & bugs - I can't really say - I've only just got it, but I
haven't seen it fall over yet.  My only real gripe (apart from the
fonts) is that it is *slow* - it takes of the order of 1 minute to
format 5 pages of A4 on a DN3000 running 10.3.  Other than that - it
looks pretty good, but, as always, caveat emptor...

Colin
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