Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pcrat!rick
From: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Genicom (Centronics) Laser Printer
Message-ID: <659@pcrat.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jan 89 12:25:21 GMT
References: <18097@adm.BRL.MIL> <1989Jan24.005723.5667@tmsoft.uucp>
Reply-To: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Organization: PC Research, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ
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In article <1989Jan24.005723.5667@tmsoft.uucp> mason@tmsoft.UUCP (Dave Mason) writes:
>It's MOSTLY HP Laserjet Plus compatible.  There are 2 differences.
>The important one is that with down-loaded fonts, the font must be
>completely down-loaded before use.  With a Laserjet Plus, you can
>down-load a few characters in a font, and then add more to it when
>necessary.

>good a price, and get some support as well.  I'm selling them for about
>2/3 what a HP Laserjet+ goes for, and I think they're a good value at
>that price.

Not being able to do incremental font downloads is a serious
performance loss.  Personally, I would not sacrifice this
capability for the 1/3 price savings.  There is a growing
assortment of software written to take advantage of
incremental download.

Furthermore, if you have the incremental download capability
like the HP LaserJet Series II, it is *extremely* unlikely
that you would need additional RAM beyond the standard 512
Kbytes.  Only if you need to do an entire page of 300 dpi
bitmap graphics would you run into memory problems.  The
fonts would almost never run you out of memory.

Point of fact is that I've printed many large documents on the
LaserJet Series II that used 24 different font/size combinations
(but no more than 16 per page) and have never run out of memory
on the basic LaserJet Series II.

In conclusion, I would avoid this printer.

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