#Which Laser Printer?
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I have an Amiga 500 with 1 meg of memory. I am interested in buying a
Laser Printer and have looked at the Okilaser 400 (which emulates an HP
Laserjet series II). In the Amigados 1.3 manual (on page 49) there is a
description of the printer driver for the HP Laserjet which reads as
follows:
"HP_Laserjet (LaserJetPlus/LaserJet II compatible)"
This description is sort of confusing, does this indicate that this
printer driver supports a Laserjet Series II?
Are there other more specific printer drivers available?
I am using Excellence! 2.0 as my primary wordprocesser, Superbase,
and using Workbench 1.3 with the printer drivers which are supplied on the
Extras disk.
Has anyone had any experience with either the HP Laserjet II or III,
or the Okilaser 400?
Which is a better buy in terms of supporting the fonts available with
Excellence! 2.0?
What is the meaning of "downloadable fonts" and "soft fonts" which is
described in the laser printer manuals?
Or does the Amiga NOT require the fonts that are sold with the laser
printer in order to fully utilize the fonts available on Excellence! 2.0?
I am anxiously awaiting any information which any of you might be able
to supply me with so that I might make a more educated purchase.
Vic Maquera
70731,3532
Vic,
I'm afraid that I can't help on a lot of the items, but, I can tell you a
bit about downloadable fonts. Out of the box, your printer comes with the
ability to print 1 or more fonts when you plug it in and turn it on. The
printer can also have the computer telit how to form the characters. The
computer must run a program to download the font from the computer to the
printer, with the printer storing the font in it's internal ram. Of
course, ram used to contain fonts is not available for page buffering, so
there is a tradeoff for using downloadable fonts. Also, downloading fonts
can take a significant amount of time while you're printing.
I'm not much of a DTP type, but, I hope this helps you out a bit. 8)
David