NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #18/NN_1992_18.iso/spool/bit/listserv/notabene/617

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From: [e-mail] (Austin Kerr)
Subject: Re: help with buying a printer; 4.0
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail].
ohio-state.edu (Austin Kerr) writes:
>I appreciate the advice of those of you on this list who have so much more
>expertise than I do.  We wish to buy the new printer in a few days so we
>can send our old printer off with our son who will begin as a Freshman at
>Oberlin College next week.  At work, without the soft fonts or the Microsoft
>Cartridge and NB 3.0 all I can do is PT 10 on our HP II printer, and I do not
>want that to be the case on the one I buy at home.
>
>You can reply to me personally if you prefer at   [e-mail]

Much of my original message somehow disappeared into electronic oblivion.  My
wife asked me to buy a laser printer.  We write in th eEnglish language.  I was
waiting for 4.0, but need to make a decision soon.  Will 4.0 allowe me to print
in proportional spacing, such as PT 121 or PT 102, WITHOUT having to buy a set
of soft fonts to download or the Microsoft or similar cartridge, which is on an
HP IIP in one of my offices?  In other words, would we be happy with any laser
printer that is HP compatible, or would we be better off with an HP with a
cartridge?