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Subject: Re: LN03 report
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Date: Sat, 16-Mar-85 00:32:12 EST
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From: ihnp4!utzoo!henry@uw-beaver.arpa

> The LN03 isn't much of a graphics device, but as a distributed printer for
> TEX or SCRIBE class document production, it should be just dandy.  It is
> certainly a big step up from the HP Laserjet for not much more money.

Note that the LaserJet can indeed do moderately-decent typesetting,
using Textware International's software.  We have had people (admittedly
not typesetting professionals) mistake the output for photocopies of
phototypesetter output.  It looks considerably better than the output
from the local Imagens, probably because HP's fonts are cleaner.

I agree that downloadable fonts and the paper-handling improvements are
significant, although (as I've described recently) face-down stacking
is pretty trivial to arrange for a LaserJet.  But it's not quite so much
of a "big step" as you would think; people who use LaserJets only as
daisywheel replacements are missing the potential of the machine.

				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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