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From: pavlov@hscfvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Word Perfect and Laserjet: I don't understand!
Message-ID: <428@hscfvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 17-Jun-87 01:57:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: hscfvax.428
Posted: Wed Jun 17 01:57:18 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 19-Jun-87 01:03:11 EDT
References: <3962@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
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In article <3962@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>, mic@lapis.berkeley.edu (Michel Bruneau) writes:
> Well, I have been using Word PErfect for quite a time (with satisfaction)
> on good old Okidata dot matrix correspondance quality printer, but
> seeing the nice presentation of my UNIX friends on troff, I was tempted
> to try to use THE HP Laserjet to improve the look of my documents.
> Well, frustrations were just starting.  First of all, how come on the 
> Laserjet, Printer NUmber, fonts, spacing, and all that crap are clusted
> together while using Word Perfect??? To change to a special font you
> have to change printer definition??? DO I read correctly.  ALSO, 
> I appeared that there was only one font available with this $4000 toy
   .... etc ....

No, you do not have to reset printer definitions; there is a facility to change
fonts and spacing and another to set bold, italic, etc.

The LaserJet II lists for $2500 but can be purchased for apx. $1850 (with 1/2
meg memory).

I use a LaserJet as well as several dot-matrix printers.  From my point of 
view, the LaserJet is quite more difficult to manipulate than the dot-matrix
printers.  The most important advantages for our site are that the LaserJet
produces better-quality output, is faster, and is much less noisy.

  greg pavlov, fstrf,amherst, ny