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- From: jelmore@nyx.cs.du.edu (John Elmore)
- Subject: Re: Stylewriter vs DeskWriter???
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.235850.17664@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 23:58:50 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan23.230028.14708@leland.Stanford.EDU> Ravi Konchigeri <mongoose@leland.stanford.edu> writes:
- > I have a Deskwriter C connected to an SE/30, and I have to say that the
- >greatest advantage to the HP is Background Printing. Your productivity
- >is increased tremendously through its use. I've printed full page color
- >documents from Photoshop. They take less than a minute to spool to disk.
- > After that the Print Monitor takes care of everything and doesn't take
- >up much CPU time. It's almost as if it were not running.
- The StyleWriter has background printing: so does the SW II. I'll
- give you the color...
-
- > Another advantage to the HP is the noise, or lack thereof. Except for
- >the sound of the motor, you can't hear a thing. Your computer fan's
- >probably louder than the HP. The quiet is especially noticible if you're
- >upgrading from something like an Imagewriter.
- Hmmmm... never heard a StyleWriter print, have you? It's probably
- just as loud. (Kind of a loud hum as the paper feeds through...)
-
- > Also, the print quality is great. HP printouts on good paper are almost
- >indistinguishable from laser printouts. Grayscale images are printed
- >easily and are dithered beautifully. Printouts at 'Normal' setting are
- >just about as good as at 'Best.'
- Sounds like the StyleWriter! I don't know how great GreyShare is
- supposed to be, but there have been workarounds to it posted on here...
-
- >Besides all of this, I think the HP's cheaper than the SW anyway.
- Depends on where and how you buy it. The edu. discount at my school puts
- it around $311. (No flames about educational discounts, please...)
-
- Jay (=
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