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Subject: Re: Some rebuttals (specifically, LaserJet)
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Date: Fri, 22-Mar-85 04:36:04 EST
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From: ihnp4!utzoo!henry@uw-beaver.arpa

> 1)  A Laserjet CAN do multi-font printing
> A while ago, somebody wrote in to laser lovers to say that the HP LaserJet
> could handle a whopping 3 or 4 fonts per page (or some such small number).
> With that few fonts, you must be VERY careful of what you create.  On the
> other hand, it was reported that the LN03 can store 23 (or some such) fonts
> before giving out, which is a much more reasonable limit.  I'd call that a
> big step up.

How many documents do you print that use 23 fonts on a page?  Or even in
the whole document?  Oh sure, there are some.  But an awful lot of
documents are perfectly happy with one size of body type (including
italics and bold) and a small scattering of other things in places
like headers and equations.  This, the LaserJet does fine.  I've never
said, and would never contend, that the LaserJet is a "full typesetting"
printer.  Any time you get into heavy games with fonts, the LaserJet
bows out.  Ditto any graphics to speak of.  But for a lot of straight-
text printing, it's just great, at half the cost of the competition.

We ourselves want, and will probably get within a year or so, something
like a LaserWriter or an Imagen to do the fancy stuff.  But we'll quite
probably only get one of them, and we already have five LaserJets.  Unless
you're into something that leans heavily on graphics or really elaborate
typesetting, this is about the right ratio.  Note that (assuming equal
amounts of money) this way we have twice as many printers that can do
most of our documents.

				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry