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- From: doctor@k9.UUCP (Paul Broe)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Help me find a printer! Laser? Color DeskJet?
- Message-ID: <doctor.017z@k9.UUCP>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 08:18:28 GMT
- Article-I.D.: k9.doctor.017z
- Organization: You have to be kidding...
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- In article <1992Jul22.204038.11330@cs.brown.edu> art@cs.brown.edu (graphics artists) writes:
- > Hi - I'm looking to buy a good printer for my amiga 3000.
- > My primary uses are graphics and maybe some DTP. I need to produce
- > good quality black and white transparancies that have a high
- > degree of opacity.
- [deleted lines]
- > The first question - should I get a laser printer or this nifty
- > color deskjet?
- > How's the deskjet stack up? Is its printout opaque? Can it do 24bit color
- > printout in 300dpi? Can it print transparancies? And can it be expanded to PostScript someday?
-
- I have the DeskJet 500 (not color). It prints nicely on xerox-machine type paper.
- I haven't tried transparancies yet. The paper can make quite a difference on an
- inkjet printer. (Some regular printer paper I tried when I got my DeskJet produced
- printouts that didn't look good. I tried some photocopy paper from an office supply
- store and got excellent results. (Most phototcopy paper has some indication of
- what side to print on [for best results] on the label [usually on the end of the
- packet].)
-
- I use Post 1.7 (a PostScript interpreter) to print PostScript documents and graphics
- on my DeskJet 500. The results are pretty good.
-
- One problem with the DeskJets (and most inkjet printers) is that when you print
- graphics that have a lot of black (or darker gray) the paper will curl up some.
- Unless it is a really dark picture, it usually isn't too bad. Laser printers don't
- have this problem though. If I was going to do it again, I'd probably buy either
- an HP LaserJet of some kind or the IBM laser printer.
-
- The best thing to do is go to a ComputerLand (or other computer store) and see
- what the printer can do in person.
-
- Apparently the newest PaintJet XL(?) can have postscript added later (along with
- an ethernet connection option).
-
-
- > I'd really like to get a printer that I could add PostScript to later, if that's
- > possible - unless there's something in this range that already has PS...
-
- You can add PostScript to at least one (if not all) of IBM's newer laser printers.
- (A plus here is you get up to 600 dpi resolution as well... ).
-
- Did I say I liked something IBM makes? eek! :-)
-
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