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- From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Brian Hughes)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: Laserwriter 600/630 vs. HP Laserjet 4M
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 14:31:11 GMT
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- ferch@ucs.ubc.ca (Les Ferch) writes:
-
- >hades@dartmouth.edu (Brian Hughes) writes:
- >> Obviously you've never seen the QMS-PS1700. IMHO, it is every bit as
- >> good as the IIIsi, and offers some things the IIIsi doesn't, which is why
- >> I bought it instead.
-
- >Well, the PS1700 also costs a lot more than the IIIsi with PostScript.
-
- Actually, at the time that I purchase my PS1700, the educational
- discount that I got direct from QMS was only a couple of hundred more
- than the street price of the IIIsi with LocalTalk, but the Mac-ready
- IIIsi at that time came only with a LocalTalk port, and nothing else,
- and there was no real way to get it to handle serial printing from the
- IBM that I was planning on connecting it to, the PS1700 did, and I went
- with QMS.
-
- >However, the Compaq Pagemarq 20 blows both of them away for speed and
- >costs less too (tradeoff is that there is no double-sided option on the
- >Pagemarq, but there is 11x17).
-
- Yes, that's all well and good, but the thing didn't exist when I was
- in the market for a high speed, high capacity laser printer. And I also
- have no real need for 11x17.
-
- >I think even the Pagemarq 15 processes PostScript code faster than the
- >IIIsi and PS1700, but I don't have any test results handy.
-
- I don't know about that. The PS1700 that I have processes a page so
- quickly that it appears to be slow because it has to wait for the
- information to be sent over the LocalTalk port (what I wouldn't give for
- EtherNet).
-
- >One drawback to the Pagemarq is that Compaq does not have .APD, .PPD,
- >.PDF, or .PDX files ready (unless they just came out in the past few
- >weeks).
-
- This is a big problem. We do a lot of printing from PageMaker in my
- office to the PS1700, and the QMS .PPD file works great.
-
- --
- -Brian V. Hughes
- "December 1 - What begins as a friendly transitional get-together between
- the Bushes and the Clintons ends in tragedy when Millie ralphs up what
- is later identified as Socks the cat." Dave Barry 1992 Year in Review
-