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- Subject: RE: Looking for a portable printer?
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- From: Harold Climer <HCLIMER%UTCVM.bitnet@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 11:46:06 EST
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- In-reply-to: Your message of Sun, 20 Dec 1992 14:24 CST
- To: handhelds@gac.edu
- Lines: 58
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- On Sun, 20 Dec 1992 14:24 CST you said:
- >From: kolstad@cae.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad)
- >Date: 20 Dec 92 02:46:14 CST
- >Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
- >Lines: 32
- >
- >
- >For those of you who are in the market for a portable printer, check out
- >HP's new portable DeskJet. I just got one (Merry Christmas to me, Merry
- >Christmas to me...), and it is one slick device.
- >
- >- The print speed seems just as good as the regular DeskJets. It kicked
- >out a 300x300 DPI MS-Word page in just about 40 seconds. (Compared to the
- >original DeskJet, which a friend of mine has, which takes 4 MINUTES to kick
- >out the same page!)
- >
- >- The battery is said to be good for 100 pages, although I haven't seen
- >just how true that is.
- >
- >- Just printing straight text, it'll do about 2 PPM in letter quality mode
- >and 3 PPM in draft mode (lighter printing).
- >
- >- It's a real DeskJet, speaking PCL 3, which gives it a large advantage
- >over, say, the Canon printers. No offense to Canon... :-) (In fact, rumor
- >has it that the mechanism inside the portable DeskJet is made by Canon.)
- >
- >- This thing looks beautiful on my desk. It's jet black, with gray buttons.
- >HP clearly has some decent people working on the ergonomics and appearence of
- >their devices.
- >
- >- I got the cut sheet feeder, which holds 50 sheets. The entire setup
- >(printer + cut sheet feeder) can be folded flat so it's easy to lug around.
- >
- >Needless to say, I am impressed. And no, I don't work for HP... but I use
- >a ridiculously large number of their products these days, so I may be a
- >little biased. :-) (If only HP would start making watches again...!)
- >
- > ---Joel Kolstad
-
- Joel,
- Can you get a carring case for it. ie similar to ones
- people carry their Laptops in ? My brother is thinking of upgrading from his
- Epson 24 pin printer. ( Which he will give to me. ) He got a Gateway 2000 66MHz
- 486 and I guess he figures he must move up to a fancier printer too; which is
- entirely O.K. with me.
- BTW I have finally launched myself into the Messy Dos world.
- When my brother bought his 486 I got his old computer. A 386 20MHz which I am
- in the process of upgrading to a 386 40 MHz with 128K cache memory,Co-Processor
- and 8 Megs of SIMM RAM. ( Had to,unhappily,because I could only get it to run
- at 10 MHz with the turbo switch in, and the repair shop couldn't fix it)
- Still have my Commodore 128 and I am going to keep it; for
- situations just like the above. In fact I am writing this note on the Mainframe
- at school through a modem and my trusty 128. Is's still good for somthing other
- than a big paper weight. Happy Holidays.
-
-
- Harold Climer
- Physics Dept.
- U. Tennessee at Chattanooga
-