#DeskJet 500 Color
22-Oct-91 20:45:33
Sb: #37887-#DeskJet 500 Color
Fm: John Pendergrass 76246,676
To: Dan Cole 73777,3256
There is a DeskWriterC (DeskJet for the Mac with Color) that I looked at
Monday evening. Output looks pretty darn good. Full color at 300DPI.
Plain paper. Looks identical to the DeskWriter (for the Mac).
Uses only one cartridge, though. That cartridge can be either COLOR or
BLACK. (not two cartridges like the PJ) So if you switch tween color
printing and B&W printing often you'll be swapping cartridges a lot. (sad
design decision, if you ask me)
The demo only had bar graphs (shoot, any color printer can do a decent job
on bar graphs); I wanted to see bitmaps, but they weren't set up for it
right then, so I didn't.
Price was @ $695 (which was a moderately discounted price).
Remember! This was a Macintosh Color DJ, not a regular DeskJet. It has
the Mac 'logic' built into it. There is supposed to be a regular version
of the Deskjet coming out RSN with color; I suppose called the 'DeskJetC'.
Should be real nice, if we can get some a real good printer driver for it!