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From: dlow@pollux.svale.hp.com (Danny Low)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: DeskJet or Laser Printer
Message-ID: <5870043@pollux.svale.hp.com>
Date: 20 May 91 16:42:28 GMT
References: <1991May14.215216.18867@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
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>What is a good, cheap laser printer, anyway, which I should be able to get
>drivers for for some time?
> * * * * * * *  ======================= Meir Green                 

Having used both laser printers and ink jets, I can say that a GOOD
ink jet (e.g. HP Deskjet 500) will give you quality as good as
any laser printer for half the price. Ink jets are paper sensitive
so you may have to experiment to find a brand of paper that works
well. The paper does get wrinkled if you do a lot of dense graphics.

The best cheap laser printer is the HP IIP. HP laser printers are the
standard that all other laser printers compete against. Everyone
supports HP laser printers. There are more accessories (e.g. 
font cartridges) available for the HP laser printers than for
all the others combined. There are HP laser printers clones
that emulate to various degres an HP laser printer. They are usually
cheaper. Just beware that the emulation on many of the clones is
NOT good enough to pass muster in all cases. PC Magazine in their
annual printer issues indicate how closely a HP Laserjet clone
comes to fully emulating the Laserjet.

			     Danny Low
	        North America Personal Computer Division
	               dlow@pollux.svale.hp.com
		          HP4200/29 720-3622