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From: lsh@polari.UUCP (Lee Hauser)
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Subject: Re: DeskJet or Laser Printer
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Date: 29 May 91 04:49:54 GMT
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In article <1991May28.201446.8595@unlv.edu> whitney@jimi.cs.unlv.edu (Lee Whitney) writes:
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>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.

Gee, my documents, draft or finals, don't smear, since HP reformulated the ink.
Neither do I wait forever for a printout.  I bought my DJ+ for $300, about 
50% or better the price of a series P LaserJet.  I agree that if laser keep 
going down in price the deskjets and dot matrixes will be a thing of the past,
but I had $300 to spend on a printer three months ago, not $400-$600 to spend
on a laser a year from now.  It wasn't tough at all to justify the DJ, with
non-smearing, 120cps, near-laser final output and non-smearing, 240 cps,
better-than-the-nlq-on-my-last-dot-matrix printer draft mode.  Amazing, isn't
it, how I manage to have a practical computer system for about $1000.
About 30% of what a large number of the attorneys I work for (who aren't even
computer literate) think is absolutely necessary to get done half of what I 
do every day...

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