#LaserPrinters,Scanners
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Donna,
hope this is not too late for you (I've been away for a while).
1) Diff between II and IIP: II is stressed for 40,000 pages per month; IIP
for 20,000 pages per month. II cartridges aprox $90; IIP approx $65. IIP
has more built in fonts. IIP is slower than II by about 2 pages/min. HP IIp
uses a different engine than a II (I forget which one is which) but the IIP
uses the one that creates nice solid blacks where you have a patch of black
instead of "snowed on" black like the II and Apple Laser Writer IIntx.
2) Postscript: you can use CGFonts with ProPage, or do PostScript to a file
from any of the packages you mentioned and then PixelScript the file to the
printer. Excellent I/O. Pixelations also has released a postscript
downloader to download fonts to a postscript printer. PostSript in a
cartridge is available for the IIP form Pacific Peripheral (I think that is
the name). They can be found advertisining in BYTE and the cartridge was
reviewed in BYTE a month or two ago. Functioned flawlessly. Don't worry
about HPGL or the HP native printer commands. I fool with them 'cause I'm a
tinkerer. For all the DTP, graphic, spreadsheeet/accounting, program
listing etc etc that I've done there has never been a need to use other
than the Ados 1.3 HPLaserJet driver or the package supplied driver for an
LJ II (a la PageStream.) Plug it in, go to preferences and select the
LaserJet driver and enjoy printing.
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Thanks for all your msgs, Wayne. It's not too late in the sense that I've
not made a final committment, yet, so I'll digest your msgs. at my leisure.
I have sort of "fallen in love" with the Nec SilentWriter which is an
L.E.D. PS printer, as I understand it, but the quality is laser-like.
Understand I don't have any idea what that means, except the P.S. part. The
owner who printed my newsletter for me this month did an avid study and
like it best cause the black areas are smoothly black, says it needs little
maintenance and cost less than the HP II's even tho it came with PS fonts
and all the memory it needed. Do you know anything about it?
* db *
Donna,
Sorry, I've never run into the NEC printer you mentioned. I have used their
monitors in previous companies and they worked fine, seemed pretty rugged.
So the quality of the product should not be much of a concern. The output,
available service and add-ons vs what you need it to do are the things to
look at. Good luck with it. And if you need any more info on the HP LJ IIP
let me know…
wmc