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From: jrm@SKEF.SLISP.CS.CMU.EDU (Jim Muller)
Newsgroups: comp.laser-printers
Subject: HP Laserjet II P queries
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Date: 21 Feb 90 00:25:00 GMT
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I'm interested in buying an inexpensive printer for my home, for simple word
processing, and I've concluded that the II P (or the compatibles from
Fujitsu or OkiData -- but they show no clear advantage) probably
provides best my immediate needs.

0. Is the arrival of the series III next week likely to cause any price
   changes I want to know about?
1. I see it can be expanded to know postscript, but have heard that it's
   better to buy "something intended to be a postscript printer".  What
   would be the most real disadvantages of upgrading the II P?
2. I assume that the II P runs just shy of its specked 4 pages/min.
   Is it substantially slower if you run it with postscript?
3. Can I trivially print text files from DOS on this beast?
4. If I decide that living with only Courier fonts is too dull, do
   I have any cheap options for font expansion?  Do programs like
   Lotus MS and WordPerfect easily allow me to use soft fonts?
   Are there any public domain fonts?  Is there a way to learn the font 
   format and convert other fonts that I already have?  Do software fonts 
   slow the beast down?

(I was only able to read about a month back, so forgive me if I'm
repeating previous discussion.)