[comp.sys.mac.hardware] Any negatives to Microtek's TrueLaser??

6600dayl@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Darryl "NOT Sara" Lee) (05/11/91)

Has anybody had any good/bad experience with the new printer by
Microtek, the TrueLaser?  The ads, and their technical support say
that the thing can support everything: postscript, truetype, trueimage
(Microsoft Windows fonts)...

It comes with 35 TrueType fonts, supposedly equivalent to the
Postscript fonts that come with a normal ps printer.  And these fonts
will work when the screen font is a ps font (like times, palantino,
zapf chancery, etc...)

Any bad or false information there?

And in the real world, is a AMD 29000 (a "32-bit RISC processor")
really "ten times faster than the 6800 found in PCL or PDL printers"?
and what is a PCL or PDL printer?

isn't PCL like HP's format for printing?

anyways...please e-mail responses, i'll try to consolidate them into
something salvagable when i have some time....

					---Darryl
					6600dayl@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu