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From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: laser printers for Amiga?
Keywords: printers, laser
Message-ID: <11775@gryphon.COM>
Date: 8 Feb 89 03:12:15 GMT
References: <1742@tank.uchicago.edu>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
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Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <1742@tank.uchicago.edu> arxt@tank.uchicago.edu (patrick  palmer) writes:
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>3. How important is Postscript for an Amiga user? 

It'll change your life.

>missing the greatest thing since sliced bread.  (What I am getting at is: is 
>ability to expand to Postscript compatibiliy an essential feature for the 
>prudent buyer?)

IMHO, yes.

The difference between a PS printer and a ``dumb'' laser is that with
a PS printer, there are no limitations. You don't have to download
every single font you want to use. You dont have to send it a whole
2 MB bitmap to print a simple graphic (assuming your HP has
enough memory in the first place).

And of course it'll do things an HP just cant do, like wrap circular
text around a cube.

Or, in another vein, Paul Heckbert wrote a ray tracer in PostScript
because he couldnt stand to see such resources go idle.

The drawback is the cost. The cheapest PS printer is the NEC LC-890
for $3k. COme with 35 fonts though, and at $100 per for the equiv.
HP fonts you actually come out ahead, I suppose.

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