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From: jrm@skef.slisp.cs.cmu.edu (Jim Muller)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: HP Laserjet II P queries?
Keywords: HP Laserjet
Message-ID: <8128@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 23 Feb 90 02:55:56 GMT
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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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?
   Do software fonts slow the beast down?