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- From: gsteen@student.business.uwo.ca (Garnet Steen)
- Subject: Re: NeXT b&w laser printer
- Organization: University of Western Ontario
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 14:20:51 GMT
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- tlm@iastate.edu (Dr. T.L. Marchioro II) writes:
-
- > In <BuJqE6.EHJ@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) write
- >
- > >gsteen@student.business.uwo.ca (Garnet Steen) writes:
- >
- > >> I have a NeXT station and need to buy a laser printer for it. I
- > [[[[[Trimmed for brevity]]]]]]
- > >>Suggestions?
- >
- > >Unless you go with one of the 'mini' laser printers (HP IIIP, etc.),
- > >you are going to have to look hard to find a cheaper laser printer
- > >than the NeXT Laser Printer.
- > >If you have a IIIP with PostScript card, it shouldn't be too hard to
- > >make it work- but you will have so much less troubles if you get the
- > >NeXT Laser Printer, and it will be a lot faster than most any other
- > >solution. (esp. for that price)
- >
- > I'd have to second that. Not only is the price very good for the NeXT LW
- > but at 400 dpi and pretty good speed it's also superior in quality to
- > virtually anything else you'd look at. Maybe high DPI is not important to
- > you now, but what about down the line? Is it worth it to save a few $ now
- > when maybe in a couple of years you own something which is inadequate for
- > your needs?
- >
- > the one disadvantage to the NeXT printer, obviously, is that it's a "dumb"
- > printer which has to be used off a NeXT, but since you already have the
- > NeXT. . . . .
- >
- > tom
- >
- >
-
-
- Well, everyone who has responded (including the private e-mail I
- received) had come down pretty solidly on the side of the NeXT printer.
- I hadn't looked around too much but was thinking about third party, what
- with the prices NeXT charges for memory and hard drives. I wondered if
- maybe their laser was overpriced too. But, I think you are all correct -
- the quality and seemless integration are probably worth it. Now, a
- fax/modem...
-
- gsteen@student.business.uwo.ca (Garnet Steen)
- Western Business School -- London, Ontario
-