Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!mcdchg!chinet!les
From: les@chinet.UUCP (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Eroff and HPdeskjet
Message-ID: <6465@chinet.UUCP>
Date: 2 Sep 88 03:44:19 GMT
References: <780002@hp-sde.SDE.HP.COM> <339@elan.UUCP> <66638@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: les@chinet.UUCP (Leslie Mikesell)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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In article <66638@sun.uucp> david@sun.uucp (David DiGiacomo) writes:

>Laser printers cannot move the paper in the reverse direction, or stop the
>paper once it is moving.  They "back up" by buffering some or all of the
>page in RAM.  The DeskJet could use the same approach.

Ummm, they left something out of the DeskJet to keep the price low
(otherwise you might as well but a laser).  Guess what it was....

Les Mikesell