[comp.sys.sgi] HP PaintJet printers

sears@SGI.PHYSICS.LSA.UMICH.EDU (Rob Sears) (04/30/91)

Perhaps I wasn't paying attention and this was already discussed, but has
anyone connected a Hewlett Packard PaintJet to his/her Iris?  It is 
spec'ed at 180 dpi and up to 16.8 million colors (I don't know how those
trade off).  Price is ~$950 for the base model, ~$1745 for the XL.

Sounds like a reasonable poor-man's alternative for color output.
	Robert Sears
	sears@mail.physics.lsa.umich.edu

Bill Lasher <W0L@psuvm.psu.edu> (04/30/91)

We have an HP Paintjet on our network in a student lab.  The quality is quite
satisfactory considering the price.  If you want to print graphics, you have
to either have a Paintjet driver with your application package, or convert
your image files to Paintjet format.  We are using Freedom of Press, which
converts Postscript to Paintjet (and many other) formats.

Bill