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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: <5870045@pollux.svale.hp.com>
Date: 23 May 91 22:29:28 GMT
References: <1991May14.215216.18867@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Organization: HP Lovecraft Division
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>(Allen J Michielsen) 
>   You must either be blind or in HP sales (or both ?).  The Deskjet 500 is
>a very good ink jet, but it is a ink jet.  Anyone that can't identify/tell
>Deskjet 500 (or any other inkjet available today) from a good, cheap laser
>printer (like the IIp) is either blind or doesn't care.  There is a difference,
>you can tell on ANY paper, the difference is fairly small, BOTH look very
>good.  

I'm just an HP employee who gets a great deal on HP Printers. I bought
both a IIP and a DJ 500.  The difference in quality is small as you wrote.
However even with my employee discount the price difference is BIG. The
price difference is even bigger with street prices that others have
to pay. If you do not have the bucks the DJ 500 gives you a better
deal for virtually the same quality. I would not buy a DJ 500 if 
printing 300 dpi graphics was the main use. The DJ cannot compete with
a LJ for that but for text with some graphics, the DJ offers a good
deal for much less money.

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