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- From: fenton@nemo (James M. Fenton)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: anyone have any caveats/hints for installing HPljIII on a 4D/35???
- Message-ID: <fenton.715111105@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 29 Aug 92 17:58:25 GMT
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- story@sgi.com (David (Duis) Story) writes:
-
- >SGI has recently begun shipping Impressario, which includes explicit
- >support for the HP LaserJet IIP, IIP+, IIIP, and III WITHOUT a
- >PostScript cartridge. Impressario includes host-based rendering for
- >SGI Image, text, and PostScript, and uses the parallel port to
- >download simple raster bitmaps to the LaserJet. This means that on a
- >4D/35 your rendering can go a LOT faster for those images and complex
- >PS documents, and that you needn't spend $$ on a PS cartridge for the
- >LaserJet.
- >
- >In addition, Impressario printers report detailed status back to the
- >end user via a new Printer Status Panel, and a suite of graphical end
- >user tools allow each user to customize the settings for their print
- >jobs when sent to each Impressario printer. All of these functions
- >work across the network, transparently.
- >
- >I highly recommend Impressario for HP LaserJets connected to any SGI
- >machine which has a parallel port. Check it out!
- >
- This sounds great, but does anyone out there have comments concerning the
- speed, cost, and quality comparisons of the competing packages. We have
- been using the Freedom of the Press Postscript emulator for a while.
- Although I'm not ecstatic about the speed, it does work and it lets be
- send off print jobs to a large number of different printers. Is there
- any information out there comparing Impressario with Freedom of Press?
-
- Thanks.
-
-
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