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From: chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano)
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Subject: Re: printer recommendation for small Sun network
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Date: 30 Mar 89 08:56:48 GMT
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eli@chipcom.com (chipcom!eli@spdcc.com) writes:
>hi -- what sort of printer would you recommend for a small network of Sun
>3s (4 workstations, 2 with disk)?
>But is it possible to convert postscript into HP Laserjet bitmap language?  

Get a PostScript printer.  More and more, people are moving to PostScript
as a standard format.  While it is possible to convert PostScript to HPGL
in some horribly tedious fashion, why not go with the real thing?  It is
easier (I'll bet) to go from HPGL to PostScript than vice versa.

PostScript is becoming an easy way to distribute complex documents
electronically.  I only ship tooltool documentation in PostScript, and DEC
recently put the DecStation 3100 techinical reports on the net in
PostScript.  All major doc-gen tools generate PostScript.  PostScript is
the way to go.

My recommendation is a LaserWriter IINTX.  We have put about 40,000 pages
through ours in the last nine months or so without a single glitch or
problem.

Chuck Musciano
Advanced Technology Department
Harris Corporation
(407) 727-6131
ARPA: chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com