Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ysub!psuvm!pz2
From: PZ2@psuvm.psu.edu (David L. Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Deskjet == Deskwriter?
Message-ID: <91161.103856PZ2@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 10 Jun 91 14:38:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: psuvm.91161.103856PZ2
References: <1991Jun5.224815.28763@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: Penn State University
Lines: 10

In article <1991Jun5.224815.28763@neon.Stanford.EDU>, rit@killdeer.Stanford.EDU
(Jean-Francois Rit) says:
>
>I would like to buy an inexpensive printer that would work with a
>Macintosh and a Next. a HP Deskwriter seems good for the Mac, and a
>DeskJet with ghostscript fine for the Next.
>
>Are those actually different names for the same printer?

Yes.  They are in identical cases but one is made to talk Mac, the other, PC.