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From: lair@ellis.uchicago.edu (Scott A. Laird)
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Subject: Re: DeskJet or Laser Printer
Message-ID: <1991May29.210559.7246@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 29 May 91 21:05:59 GMT
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In article <1991May29.193122.22293@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir) writes:
>In article <1991May28.201446.8595@unlv.edu> whitney@jimi.cs.unlv.edu (Lee Whitney) writes:
>>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.
>Huh?
>Deskjet $450
>Laser   $800
>
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That's more like $490 for the DeskJet and $630 for the Laser, from where I
look at it from.  Those are the best prices I saw in a quick scan I just
did through the June 11, 1991 PC Magazine.  Not the best prices available,
I'm sure, but that's a lot closer than $450 and $800.  The laser was the
Okidata 400, which isn't technically a laser, but you'd never know unless
you opened it up and checked.  That's about 30%.  It's still a contest,
but the laser's only $140 more expensive, and should print much faster.

Of course, I still have a dot matrix, so what do I know?

Scott.


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Scott A. Laird            |  Any semblance of the above to anything is purely
lair@midway.uchicago.edu  |  coincidental, as it was the result of an infinite
The University of Chicago |  number of monkeys sneaking in to use my computer 
                          |  for the afternoon.