zumbachl@norand.UUCP (lyle zumbach) (03/23/91)
I'm looking for a good printer to use at home with windows ($400-$700). With a dealer discount and a rebate, I have a chance to buy a PainJet for $700. Is this a good printer? I'm using WfW, Excel, Corel Draw. I'd also like to read comments on the DeskJet. Thanks, Lyle Zumbach uunet!norand!zumbachl
karl@hpsciz.sc.hp.com (Karl Watanabe) (03/26/91)
> >I'm looking for a good printer to use at home with windows ($400-$700). With >a dealer discount and a rebate, I have a chance to buy a PainJet for $700. >Is this a good printer? I'm using WfW, Excel, Corel Draw. I'd also like to >read comments on the DeskJet. > >Thanks, >Lyle Zumbach >uunet!norand!zumbachl >---------- I highly recommend a laserjet IIP. I have seen it for $850 which is a little higher than you want, but just about all windows programs support the laserjet. I have WFW and Excel and the LJIIP works great except Excel seems to default to helvetica font which I don't have. I have a paintjet at work and it is great for color pictures, but the resolution is not so great and text doesn't look that good. Also, you have to constantly buy the paint cartridges which I believe will cost more than the laser toner in the long run. I have seen output from the Deskjet and it looks almost as good as the laserjets. HP claims 300 dpi which should look very good. The printing time is too slow for me so I spent the extra money for the LJIIP. good luck,
shepard@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Brett Shepard) (03/26/91)
In article <48@norand.UUCP> zumbachl@norand.UUCP (lyle zumbach) writes: > >a dealer discount and a rebate, I have a chance to buy a PainJet for $700. ^^^^^^^ Is it really that much agony??? I've used one at work and it doesn't seem to be _that_ bad... :) Actually, if you're willing to part with $700, you might as well pop an extra $300 or so and get a real laser. The PaintJet is slow (at least it really seems that way when printing a lot of color charts), and I don't think the print quality is nearly as good as you can get from a laser. Of course, I've only used it for printing from Harvard Graphics (no real text processing there), but those are my impressions. >Lyle Zumbach bds ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Just the opinions, ma'am." | Brett Shepard | Close your eyes and Go ahead, crash our system! | Ball State University | pretend that there is UUCP: shepard@bsu-cs.bsu.edu| Muncie, IN | a fancy graphic here -------------------------------------------------------------------------------