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From: neff@hpvcla.HP.COM (Dave Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: DeskJet
Message-ID: <4730024@hpvcla.HP.COM>
Date: 26 Aug 88 19:52:16 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Vancouver, WA
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I have already responded to Tom personally, but I would like to clarify
a few points.

The DeskJet was designed to be a high quality high speed TEXT printer
with high quality graphics capability for occasional graphics needs.
Certain design tradeoffs were made which intentionally optimized for
text applications over graphics applications -- most significantly
the 16K input buffer.  If I could replace the 16K input buffer with
a 4K buffer and user the 12K for graphics I could double the graphics
performance.  But I can't ...

Atari users tend to be graphics oriented.  If the DeskJet meets
your needs, despite its slow graphics performance, great.  If
we added a page of RAM, our cost advantage over laser printers would
go down the tubes, and who would buy a DeskJet?

As for font/download incompatabilies between the LaserJet Plus/II
and DeskJet, the DeskJet uses a 600DPI horizontal resolution with
no consecutive dots being fired in order to get optimal text quality.
LaserJet fonts (in a DeskJet) just do not look as good as the tweeked DeskJet
fonts.  Moreover, DeskJet fonts use data compaction to put more fonts in less
ROM, the LaserJet does not.  This results in font cartridges for
DeskJet that cost about 1/3 as those of the LaserJet and gives
beter print quality than the LaserJet fonts would.

Dave Neff
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