isolated@alix.UUCP (20 James D. Corder) (07/08/89)
Fri Jul 7 17:19:19 EDT 1989 Hello NetLanders:-) I have been elected to write the newsletter for a group that I belong to. I would like to use a laser printer. I have an AT&T 3B2/300 SYS V.2.0. I have purchased the DOCUMENTER'S WORKBENCH from AT&T. This contains nroff and troff. I am fair at nroff. I have never used troff. I would like to purchase a laser printer. However, this purchase must come out of my pocket. Therefore, I would like to stay between one and two thousand dollars. The closer to one thousand the better:-) I do not want just a neeto line printer. In other words, I would like to be able to change font sizes, make lines, etc... I know, a few thousand is not much. Do you have any suggestions on what laser printer I should purchase? I heard that troff does not work will with most over the counter laser printers. I heard that there are public domain software packages that fix this problem. Is this true? If so, what is the software? The only Desk Top Publishing system that I have ever worked with was PageMaker, Mac+, LaserWrite II. It was great. Oh well, to have money:-) Any suggestion would be deeply appreciated!!! Thank you, James D. Corder ...osu-cis!alix!jdc alix!jdc@cis.ohio-state.edu ps Does anyone want to trade any desktop publishing equipment for a PDP-8e or PDP-11/34. Well, it is worth asking:-)
rick@pcrat.uucp (Rick Richardson) (07/09/89)
In article <244@alix.UUCP> isolated@alix.UUCP (20 James D. Corder) writes: >belong to. I would like to use a laser printer. I have an AT&T 3B2/300 >SYS V.2.0. I have purchased the DOCUMENTER'S WORKBENCH from AT&T. This >contains nroff and troff. I am fair at nroff. I have never used troff. > > I would like to purchase a laser printer. > > I heard that troff does not work will with most over the counter >laser printers. I heard that there are public domain software packages that >fix this problem. Is this true? If so, what is the software? Printers that run JetRoff, at least according to our customers: HP LaserJet Series II 100% Compatible HP LaserJet+ Avoid point sizes > 32, large bitmaps Panasonic KX-P4450 Needs 1.03 or later ROMs (call 201-392-4211) Acer LP-76 Needs 2.6 (A7) or later ROMs Oki Laserline 6 Olivetti PG208 Mk 2 The LaserJet Series II runs about $1550 these days, some of the others are in the $1200-$1300 range. To complete your setup, you can use the original shareware version 1.1 of JetRoff (its not P.D., though), or you can register to get version 2.6 for $50 (home use) or $100 (business use). -- Rick Richardson | JetRoff "di"-troff to LaserJet Postprocessor|uunet!pcrat!dry2 PC Research,Inc.| Mail: uunet!pcrat!jetroff; For anon uucp do:|for Dhrystone 2 uunet!pcrat!rick| uucp jetroff!~jetuucp/file_list ~nuucp/. |submission forms. jetroff Wk2200-0300,Sa,Su ACU {2400,PEP} 12013898963 "" \d\r\d ogin: jetuucp