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#Deskjet help!

    31-Mar-90 16:11:33
Sb: #Deskjet help!
Fm: John Snell 74240,543
To: All
Hi. I'm hoping someone here can help me with questions I have about the HP Deskjet Plus printer. I have a chance to get one on Sunday at a very good price, and it's a limited time offer. I'm not familiar with the Deskjet or with inkjet technology, I'm afraid. I'm hoping someone who has used one can tell me: 1) Is the print quality comparable to laser printing? 2) How well does it handle graphics, or is it even capable of reproducing graphics? 3) Can it use Amiga fonts, or is it limited to the fonts that are built into the machine? 4) Can inkjet printers produce legible type down to 8 point? 5) If it CAN handle the Amiga fonts (like those on Workbench) as downloadable fonts, does this machine that the speed of the printer drastically slows? (Specifically, I'm thinking of the crawl that dot matrix printers move at when attempting some of those "Fancy fonts" programs. As you can probably tell, what I'm looking for in a printer is laser quality at dot matrix prices. I know that sounds too good to be true, but folks here swear that's possible. These same people, however, are the ones who are selling the merchandise. 😉 I already have a dot matrix printer, so merely getting the words on the page in legible form isn't what I'm looking for. I can do that now. I want something that looks closer to typeset quality. Thanks in advance for anyone's and everyone's help.