herndon@mingus.SRC.Honeywell.COM (William Herndon) (05/24/89)
I need some advice on buying a laser printer. I have a AT&T 3b1
with 2 meg of RAM. As my fiance and I are planning to return to
graduate school soon, I thought that buying a laser printer would
be very helpful to us. I use TeX for my document processing and am
confident that I can bring it up on my 3b1. My question is, what
type of printer should I buy?
I have done some preliminary shopping and have determined that HP
Laserjet format printers can be had for as little as $1400. On
the other hand, Postscript printers seem to start at about $2500 and
go up. I am somewhat familiar with Postscript and am confident
that I can patch bad software obtained from the net, as I did to
the DVI to PS converter that we have at work. I am not at all
familiar with HP Laserjet format, and this brings up many other
questions. Especially since the price of HP emulating printers is
much more within my budget.
Some other questions:
1. What are the pitfalls the HP Laserjet format?
2. Is there a public domain DVI to HP converter?
3. How does the quality of HP emulating printers compare
to the Postscript printers?
4. Is there documentation, or are there books on the
HP format?
5. Any other advice?
E-Mail to me or post any replies. Thanks in advance.
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