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From: izumi@mindseye.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
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Subject: Re: Third party PostScript printers vs. the NeXT laser printer
Summary: Buy NeXT Laser printer
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Date: 21 Jun 91 06:07:22 GMT
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In article <1991Jun21.033021.24262@cs.ucla.edu> grw@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (George Wu) writes:
>
>    I am buying a NeXTStation and also contemplating whether I should
>get the NeXT laser printer or a third party PostScript printer.  I
>know the NeXT laser printer prints at 400dpi but I really care more
>about its printing speed.  Is it faster than the low-end third party
>PostScript printers(e.g. TI, HPLJ III w/PS cartridge, etc.) ?

There are two reasons to buy NeXT laser printer.

[1] Because NeXT lacks a parallel port, a 3-rd party printer
must be driven via a serial port.  Even at 19200 baud, printing
documents that contain a lot of bitmap images will take forever
to print.  NeXT printer doesn't have this bottleneck.
Try printing "IB_Tutorial" or "NeXTAdvantage" documents
available at FTP sites both on a NeXT printer, and any
serial PS printer.

[2] You will automatically get the newest PostScript version
every time you get an OS upgrade from NeXT.  Cant' do that
with PS interpreter that reside in ROMs of 3-rd party printers.
It will cost you a fortune even if you can.
And with CPU board upgrade, your NeXT printer will become
even faster.

And may be one more,
NeXT laser is probably the most economical PS printer with
Ethernet interface.


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