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- From: marshall@sdd.hp.com (Marshall Clow)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: Deskwriter recommendations?
- Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Date: 4 Jan 1993 20:15:09 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett Packard San Diego Printer Division
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- In article <1ia4quINNgce@agate.berkeley.edu>, dglo@manray.Berkeley.EDU
- (Dave Glowacki) wrote:
- >
- > I'm ready to buy a printer to hook up to my IIci at home and I'm pretty sure
- > I want a Deskwriter of some sort, but I've got a few questions.
- >
- > 1) We'll mainly be doing B&W output but color would be nice for those times
- > when my daughter draws something spectacular that we want to send off
- > to the grandparents :-) Is it silly to buy one of the color models
- > if we're hardly ever going to use the color?
-
- This is what the 500C is designed for: people who usually print black
- and white with "occasional use of color".
-
- > 2) In pricing the printers, I've found 500Cs in the $500 range and 550Cs
- > in the $700 range. Is the 550C *really* $200 better?
-
- For the use you described, probably not.
-
- > 3) Can I hook a Deskwriter up to a DOS machine? According to the salesdweeb
- > I talked to, this can't be done but being a software kinda guy, I'm
- > inclined to think that it's a matter of a cable change.
-
- The problem with hooking a DW up to a DOS machine is that the DW only knows
- two ways to do IO. LocalTalk, and Serial @ 57.6Kbaud. Few DOS machines can
- talk that fast (lat time I looked). Also, the DW is not command-compatible
- with any other printer.
-
- > Thanks for any help!
- You're welcome.
-
-
- Marshall Clow
- San Diego Printer Division Hewlett Packard
- Internet: marshall@sdd.hp.com AppleLink: HP.Marshall AOL: MClow
-
- P.S. I work for HP, but not in the division that makes the DeskWriters.
- Disclaimer:
- Me, speak for HP?? Not!!
-