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From: whitney@reed.cs.unlv.edu (Lee Whitney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: DeskJet or Laser Printer
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Date: 28 May 91 20:14:46 GMT
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HP's Laser Printers are one of the few products that are relentlessly
cloned and still manage to offer one of the best
price/performance/reliability ratios.

Although, I would agree in recomending HP Printers, you should at
least mention the IIIP, successor to the IIP.  Which is far superior
to the IIP and at a resonable price.  It is basically a 4ppm Series
III.  It has resolution enhancement, twice the memory (1 meg), and
actually processes pages faster than the series III (due to some
hardware obscurity I can't remember).

As far as the Deskjet, I consider a toy whose days are numbered.  How
irritating to have to wait forever for printing and to walk on eggs
just so you dont smudge important documents.  The Laser Printer is
becoming a commodity item and when it does the Deskjet will obsolete
along with a significant part of the dot-matrix market.  It's already
tough to justify a Deskjet even for home use when a laser is only
about 15-20% more.