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From: wunder@hp-sde.SDE.HP.COM (Walter Underwood)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Eroff and HPdeskjet
Message-ID: <780001@hp-sde.SDE.HP.COM>
Date: 26 Aug 88 21:37:45 GMT
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Organization: HP Software Dev Environments - Palo Alto, CA
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   The Deskjet will NOT do reverse line feeds past 1 or 2 lines, thus
   will NOT do ANY type of graphics other than a rasterized image from
   the top down.  I am really upset with HP for putting out 1/2 of a
   printer (I'm told that HP did this to avoid impacting their Laserjet
   II sales).

Whoever told you that is wrong.  The printer RAM is limited because
RAM is expensive.  The printer lists at $995, and street price is just
over $700.  If you work out the normal multiples, an additional $20 or
$40 of RAM makes a significant difference.

I seriously doubt that the DeskJet was handicapped to save LaserJet
sales.  In fact, if the DeskJet was much more expensive (more RAM) I
expect that people would buy LaserJet clones instead of the DeskJet.
After all, the LaserJet is faster, the printing is waterproof, tiny
dots don't flow together, bigger paper tray, existing fonts, etc.
Voila, no DeskJet sales.

If you think of the DeskJet as a turbo daisywheel printer (like the
original, non-downloadable LaserJet), you won't be disappointed.
It is *not* a typesetter, and was not designed to be a typesetter.

wunder