Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: LaserJet or Postscript printer:  Help me choose
Message-ID: <2357@looking.UUCP>
Date: 19 Nov 88 05:00:52 GMT
References: <1735@scolex>
Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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This is all false.  The LaserJet series are fully capable of being used
for complex text, kerning and graphics.  Aside from being a lot cheaper,
they are usually considerably faster than PostScript printers.

Postscript printers do have some nice facilities, such as:
	Fonts that can be scaled, and printed at any angle.
	More graphics primatives in the printer.
	A larger selection of standard fonts.

HP compatible printers with only 512K of ram can't do a full page of
300 dot bitmap graphics.  I have never wanted to do this, myself, so
I don't consider it a restriction, but some might.  You can add ram to
these printers -- there are a lot of kits.

A wide range of cartridge fonts downloadable softfonts are available for
HP compatibel printers.  One could easily buy everything you would need for
general use for a fraction of the money saved.

The one argument against the HPs is lazy DTP software.  Much software just
doesn't know how to take advantage of the HPCL, and you often find people
thinking that the printer is slow or too limited in memory because it
can't do a complex ventura page with a lot of softfonts loaded.

Rest assured, the DTP software is broken, not the printer.  This may be
no consolation if you are set on given software, of course.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473