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From: robertt@hp-vcd.HP.COM (Bob Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: DeskJet or Laser Printer
Message-ID: <740002@hp-vcd.HP.COM>
Date: 12 Jun 91 23:44:41 GMT
References: <1991May14.215216.18867@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Vancouver, WA
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s for graphics speed, which almost everybody uses, I know the Deskjet
| is so slow it would make me wait and save the $150-$200 if I could
| only afford $450-$500 for a Deskjet.

BZZZT! Wrong!
The original DeskJet was a graphics dog, but the DeskJet 500 is actually
faster than most lasers in graphics, due primarily to advanced graphics
compression.  The LaserJet III, IIIP, & IIID all have the newer graphics
compression, but any of the LaserJet II clones (OKI, etc.) donUt.

Bob Taylor
HP Vancouver