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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
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- Subject: Re: Need help selecting new laser printer (Postscript)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.231746.2009@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 23:17:46 GMT
- References: <kevinc.727736476@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
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- In article <kevinc.727736476@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca> kevinc@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (Kevin Crocker) writes:
- >Hi all, I need some advice on buying a new laser printer.
- >I run a 386Dx33 lpt1/lpt2/com1.
- >I'm thinking of going postscript as I do a lot of printing of special
- >fonts and crazy attributes. I'm open to suggestions.
- >Cost is the most serious concern. I want the most inexpensive (yet
- >highest quality, of course) printer.
- >Question of the week :-) do I really need Postscript - what are the
- >real advantages for postscript when hooked into Os/2?
-
- Just as an anecdote, USA Flex/Comark in Bloomington, Illinois, is
- selling the NEC SilentWriter 990 laser printer for $1199, which is one
- great price. It is 8 ppm, 2 MB, RISC Postscript, 200 sheet cartridge.
-
- You have pretty much answered your own question -- if you do a lot of
- printing with "special fonts and crazy attributes," Postscript isn't a
- bad idea. OS/2 handles Postscript printers particularly well, I
- think. (For example, if you drag a plain text file to the print
- object, OS/2 will insert a Postscript wrapper to make sure it actually
- prints correctly.) Adobe Type Manager works well with Postscript, as
- you might expect, and ATM is built into OS/2 and Win-OS/2.
-
- It is also the de facto standard in publishing and typesetting, so you
- can take your documents to a service bureau and get all kinds of
- special output -- with no surprises. (Well, fewer surprises, anyway.)
-
- Finally, Postscript isn't all that expensive now (as I've just
- demonstrated).
-
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