Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!giza.cis.ohio-state.edu!jgreely From: jgreely@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Need Info on QMS-800 printers Message-ID: Date: 7 Jan 90 21:34:44 GMT References: <1064@cgh.UUCP> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: J Greely Distribution: na Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 26 In-reply-to: paul@cgh.UUCP's message of 7 Jan 90 04:23:52 GMT In article <1064@cgh.UUCP> paul@cgh.UUCP (Paul Homchick) writes: >I am thinking of getting a NeXT cube, but the NeXT laser printer >doesn't look like a particularly good buy because it requires a cube >to be attached to it, and I have seen reports of serious CPU loading >while the bit-map is generated and then sent to the printer. Not quite true. The printer doesn't cause load problems so much as it freezes the window system. You still can't do much during complex imaging, but running jobs won't slow down much. I'm told that upgrading to 12 meg of RAM pretty much solves this problem. >Further, the NeXT only has five of the thirty-five fonts that you >usually see in a postscript printer. So, I have decided to buy an >'ordinary' postscript laser printer to go with it. Adobe will sell you the "LaserWriter Plus" set for $395, which will give you the screen fonts as well as the outlines. Buying an ordinary PS printer won't allow you to preview documents that contain those fonts (and if there's one thing a NeXT is good for, it's a PostScript previewer). Also, is the better resolution of the NextLaser not a consideration for you? (aside to Woody: your summary of the QMS printers looked interesting, but I have a rule about not reading paragraphs longer than my screen) -- J Greely (jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu; osu-cis!jgreely)