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From: borton@uva.UUCP (Chris Borton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: DeskJet (a LaserJet in disguise)
Message-ID: <529@uva.UUCP>
Date: 9 Sep 88 14:01:08 GMT
References: <25.230BF78B@rubbs1.FIDONET.ORG> <167@obie.UUCP> <3725@polya.St <8555@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: borton@uva.UUCP (Chris Borton)
Organization: Faculteit Wiskunde & Informatica, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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In article <8555@cup.portal.com> Mark_Peter_Cookson@cup.portal.com writes:
>Well, if Apple would use a newer version of Postscript (I think they do in the
>new series) things would be a lot better.  Postscript 44 is supposed to be
>greased lightning compared to Postscript 38 (which was what was in the Laser
>Writer Plus, I think).

Bingo!  LaserWriter II series (NT and NX) have PostScript 44.  They also have
2M RAM, more than the LW {Plus}.  Thus they are speedier.  I haven't had a
chance to do any real comparisons here; anyone care to comment?

Also note that later versions of the LaserPrep and LaserWriter driver have
vastly improved performance.

-cbb
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Chris Borton	borton%uva@mcvax.{nl,bitnet,uucp} 
Rotary Scholar, University of Amsterdam CS