wieland@pur-ee.UUCP (Jeffrey J Wieland) (05/13/88)
We are looking for a laser printer that does both PostScript and LaserJet Plus emulation. We have been looking at the NEC Silentwriter LC890. Does anyone have experience with this printer? Any suggestions for other laser printers? Jeff Wieland wieland@ecn.purdue.edu
cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) (06/02/88)
In article <8805311552.AA12506@brillig.umd.edu>, wieland@pur-ee.UUCP (Jeffrey J Wieland) writes: > > We are looking for a laser printer that does both PostScript and LaserJet Plus > emulation. We have been looking at the NEC Silentwriter LC890. Does anyone > have experience with this printer? Any suggestions for other laser printers? > > Jeff Wieland > wieland@ecn.purdue.edu Apple LaserWriter IIntx is a PostScript printer with HP LaserJet Plus emulation. However, in looking over the manual, I am a little skeptical of how useful the LJ+ emulation will be, since they use the native PostScript fonts, not the LJ+ fonts, which will give serious problems for character spacing. Further, their LJ+ emulation claims to give the font requested, not the font an LJ+ will give. For those of you confused by that last statement: the LJ+ printers give the nearest matching font to the one requested. On an LJ+ printer, you request a font by the characteristics of the font you are requesting (i.e. Roman, 10 pt. landscape, bold, proportional, 8-bit ASCII), and the LJ+ locates the font that it has available which is the nearest match. "Nearest match", of course, may mean something like 12 pt. semi-bold 7-bit ASCII, Helv, if there's nothing closer. This is a real kludge of the LJ+ command set -- but it means the LaserWriter IIntx emulation of the LJ+ is frequently going to be far, far from what a real LJ+ will produce. Clayton E. Cramer "PostScript -- or nothing."
kmw@ardent.UUCP (Ken Wallich) (06/02/88)
In article <8805311552.AA12506@brillig.umd.edu> wieland@pur-ee.UUCP (Jeffrey J Wieland) writes: > >We are looking for a laser printer that does both PostScript and LaserJet Plus >emulation. We have been looking at the NEC Silentwriter LC890. Does anyone >have experience with this printer? Any suggestions for other laser printers? > I don't know anything about the NEC printer, but I do know that the Apple LaserWrite NTX does both postscript and LaserJet Plus emulation. It seems like a dandy printer for the price, but you have to need the power it provides to justify it's price tag (~ $6500 retail). Ken Wallich ...hplabs!ardent!kmw
paul@cgh.UUCP (Paul Homchick) (07/05/88)
>In article <8805311552.AA12506@brillig.umd.edu> > wieland@pur-ee.UUCP (Jeffrey J Wieland) writes: > >We are looking for a laser printer that does both PostScript and LaserJet Plus >emulation. We have been looking at the NEC Silentwriter LC890. Does anyone >have experience with this printer? Any suggestions for other laser printers? > I've had a LC-890 since late February, and I am very happy with it. It is well-built, and should last longer than printers based on the Cannon engine, as NEC claims a life of 600,000 pages. (The 890 uses a NEC LCD-array engine). The postscript works fine with Microsoft Word, Final Word II and Ventura Publisher, and the HP Laserjet + emulation works well too. As a test, I printed one of the Ventura demo documents with the software configured for a laserjet printer. The document came out without a hitch on the NEC in HP emulation mode. The service is good, too. The warranty includes 90-days of on-site repair. Unfortunately, I needed same, as the main logic board went south and it wouldn't print at all. Fortunately, the service fellow was out the next day to fix it. Suppiles seem slightly cheaper than the Cannon-types, with a $24 toner cartridge lasting 3,000 pages, and a $100 drum needing replacement at 7,000 pages. My one complaint is that large black areas aren't very black compared to my HP Laserjet Series II. But if someone tried to take take this printer away from me, he'd have to fight! -- Paul Homchick {allegra | rutgers | uunet} !cbmvax!cgh!paul Chimitt Gilman Homchick, Inc.; One Radnor Station, Suite 300; Radnor, PA 19087