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From: crl@NEWTON.PURDUE.EDU (Charles R. LaBrec)
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A DEC LN03 makes a good relatively inexpensive text output device for
both TeX and ditroff, but if you want to do a lot of real graphics
output, get something else.  The problem is that, one, you can't get
300x300 dpi graphics (at least, that I've been able to tell), and,
two, the printer does not store an entire raster image before
printing but rather does it in bands.  The problem is that a band can
be overfilled relatively easily by a complex image, and then there is
no way around this limitation.  I have not fooled around with it
enough to determine exactly what "too complex" means, but simple x-y
line graphs with labelled axes work fine.

Charles LaBrec
crl @ newton.PURDUE.EDU