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From: neff@hpvcfs1.HP.COM (Dave Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: DeskJet questions.
Message-ID: <2150004@hpvcfs1.HP.COM>
Date: 4 May 89 19:36:39 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Vancouver, WA
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>That's not a big surprise. H-P lowered the list price on these machines to
>$799 at the same time that they announced the DeskJet Plus, which sells for
>$995. The Plus is considerably faster (with PCs- I've no idea if it's faster
>with the Mac), and I would guess that as soon as they run out of the old
>model they'll stopp selling them, but that's just a guess.

The DeskJet was not reduced in price simply to sell off all existing printers.
We are still making DeskJet printers and there are no immediate plans to
discontinue the DeskJet.  The market will of course be the final judge
as to the reasonableness of selling both flavors of printer.

As for faster on the Mac, the DeskJet+ is up to 5 times faster than
a DeskJet when printing graphics data using the parallel port.  When
using the serial port at 19.2K baud the DeskJet+ (unlike the DeskJet)
is IO limitted which generally means it is 2 times faster for graphics than
the DeskJet (on a DeskJet 19.2K baud vs. 9.6K baud makes little difference).
Hence the IO port makes a BIG difference when using uncompressed 300DPI
data but when compression modes are used the 19.2K baud serial performance
can approach (but not generally attain) the parallel performance of a
DeskJet+.  On a DeskJet, 19.2K baud, 9.6K baud, and parallel IO were
of similar performance.  The DeskJet+ is still intended to primarily
be a printer connected to PCs using MS-DOS.  As for performance and
quality of 3rd party Mac drivers let the buyer beware.

Dave Neff
hpvcfs1!neff