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From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies)
Subject: Re: DeskJet or Laser Printer
Message-ID: <1991May25.015324.30284@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Keywords: DeskJet Laser Printer Hewlett-Packard
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
References: <42152@cup.portal.com> <42206@cup.portal.com> <1991May14.215216.18867@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991May20.131241.13043@epas.toronto.edu>
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Date: Sat, 25 May 1991 01:53:24 GMT

Now most electronics houses in New York are offering the HP deskwriter
for $499.  I bought mine this week from 47Th Street Photo ($524
including shipping).  It is WONDERFUL.  It is much faster than any
macintosh printer I have ever used (well, I have a Mac II).  The
quality is very good, especially on Xerocopy 4024 paper.  The print
driver acts like a laserprinter!  25-400% magnification is available,
just like the laserwriter driver!  They even substitute some 300dpi
patterns for a few of the 72dpi grey patterns stored in the system
file (but not for the pie, or the diagonal line patterns,
unfortunately).  Not even the laserwriter driver does this!

My only regret is that color quickdraw doesn't produce grey patterns
when in b/w mode for mathematica 3-D plots.  I'm thinking about trying
to write a patch to quickdraw to do this: polygon fills really should
try to produce greys on the mac screen.  If quickdraw would only do
this, users could have all the features of the system 6.1 printing
tools with only a deskwriter.

Thanks, apple for the stylewriter.  It caused HP to reduce the price
of its deskwriter, and will make thousands of new HP customers very
happy.

Don Gillies	     |  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
gillies@cs.uiuc.edu  |  Digital Computer Lab, 1304 W. Springfield, Urbana IL

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