jas@mulga.OZ.AU (John Shepherd) (06/23/87)
I'm sure this question has been asked a few times already, so if anyone has a summary could they please mail it to me .... We are interested in looking at fairly heavy-duty and decent quality Postscript laser printers. We already have a number of Laserwriters, but would also like a printer for producing high-quality documents. Postscript is a must, and the price can be anything from Laserwriter price and up to considerably more. The details I would like are: (1) initial cost (2) speed ratings (pages per minute) (3) robustnes rating (pages per month) (4) cost of cartridges/rate of cartridge replacement (5) maintenance charges If a good summary comes my way, or I accumulate one, I will repost it to this group. Thanks in advance, jas - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - John Shepherd Department of Computer Science, University of Melbourne, CSNET: jas%mulga.oz@australia Parkville, 3052, ARPA: jas%mulga.oz@seismo.css.gov AUSTRALIA UUCP: ...!munnari!mulga!jas
sl201003@SILVER.UCS.INDIANA.EDU (franklin prosser) (06/26/90)
Rumor has it that HP now has a plug in cartridge to do emulation on the Series II (postscript). It is supposed to be faster and better than Pacific Data. Anyone have any info? Called around to the mail-order houses and they are in the dark, having only been rumorized themselves.
ries@VENICE.SEDD.TRW.COM (Marc Ries) (07/12/90)
->Rumor has it that HP now has a plug in cartridge to do emulation on the
->Series II (postscript). It is supposed to be faster and better than
->Pacific Data. Anyone have any info? Called around to the mail-order houses
->and they are in the dark, having only been rumorized themselves.
Offhand, I know about three postscript cartridges for the II/IIP:
1) Pacific Data by Pacific Data (req. 2.5 meg. printer memory)
1) HP Postscript by Adobe (req. 2.5 meg)
1) JetScript by Jet (req. 1.5 meg)
I don't have any info on comparible speed performance, but obviously
the JetScript cart only requires a 1 meg upgrade...hammen@ddsw1.mcs.com (Robert Hammen) (07/13/90)
In article <48769@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> sl201003@SILVER.UCS.INDIANA.EDU (franklin prosser) writes: >Rumor has it that HP now has a plug in cartridge to do emulation on the >Series II (postscript). It is supposed to be faster and better than >Pacific Data. Anyone have any info? HP has a PostScript cartridge for the IIP, IID, and III. It is shipping now for $695. Adobe announced a $495 cartridge for the II that will ship sometime next week. I haven't tested them yet, but have review units coming (as well as all of the new Pacific Page cartridges)... ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// / Robert Hammen | Technical Editor | Personal Publishing Magazine / / 191 S. Gary Ave. | Carol Stream, IL 60188 | (708) 462-2414 / / hammen@ddsw1.mcs.com | 76702.1135@compuserve.com | GEnie: R.HAMMEN / /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////