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- From: kolstad@cae.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad)
- Subject: Looking for a portable printer?
- Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
- Date: 20 Dec 92 02:46:14 CST
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.024614.14491@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
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- For those of you who are in the market for a portable printer, check out
- HP's new portable DeskJet. I just got one (Merry Christmas to me, Merry
- Christmas to me...), and it is one slick device.
-
- - The print speed seems just as good as the regular DeskJets. It kicked
- out a 300x300 DPI MS-Word page in just about 40 seconds. (Compared to the
- original DeskJet, which a friend of mine has, which takes 4 MINUTES to kick
- out the same page!)
-
- - The battery is said to be good for 100 pages, although I haven't seen
- just how true that is.
-
- - Just printing straight text, it'll do about 2 PPM in letter quality mode
- and 3 PPM in draft mode (lighter printing).
-
- - It's a real DeskJet, speaking PCL 3, which gives it a large advantage
- over, say, the Canon printers. No offense to Canon... :-) (In fact, rumor
- has it that the mechanism inside the portable DeskJet is made by Canon.)
-
- - This thing looks beautiful on my desk. It's jet black, with gray buttons.
- HP clearly has some decent people working on the ergonomics and appearence of
- their devices.
-
- - I got the cut sheet feeder, which holds 50 sheets. The entire setup
- (printer + cut sheet feeder) can be folded flat so it's easy to lug around.
-
- Needless to say, I am impressed. And no, I don't work for HP... but I use
- a ridiculously large number of their products these days, so I may be a
- little biased. :-) (If only HP would start making watches again...!)
-
- ---Joel Kolstad
-