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In article <9208180831.AA512500@nike.calpoly.edu>  
mrothste@NIKE.CALPOLY.EDU (Mont Egan Rothstein) writes:
> Recently I saw a post describing the Mac IIf printer as being superior  
to
> the NeXT printer.  At the time I was tempted to respond but didn't.  I  
just
> read a post comparing an even lower Mac printer to a NeXT printer. (I  
for
> the life of me can't remember what the printer was but they listed the  
edu price as 6 hundred and something).  At this point I have to respond.
> 
> I have a unique experience.  I worked in our school bookstore computer  
dept.
> This gave me access to many well configured machines and often nothing  
to do.
> At one time I decided to try an experiment; I wanted to print an EPS and 
> a TIFF image on both a Mac and a NeXT, the same images.  The Mac was a  
Quadra
> with 64MB and a IIf printer, the NeXT was a NeXTstation Color wityh 20MB  
and
> a NeXT 400dpi printer.  I won't go into the grusome stories of moving  
the imagesfrom one computer to the other.  The result was that the NeXT  
won on speed
> with both images (I don't have the times).  The NeXT also won in image  
quality
> even with the IIf's supposed simulated 600dpi and 64 levels of gray the  
NeXT
> looked noticeably (sp?) better (i.e. those around who compared could  
tell the
> difference when asked to compare).  So enough of the Mac better for less  
b/w
> printing stuff.
> 
> As a side when the same images were printed on a HP IIIp with PCL5 and  
Image
> Enhancing the difference was less.
> 
> -Mont
> (sorry no NeXTmail) -When reading the recent Q193 date for NeXTSTEP/486  
I
>                      was nearly brought to tears :(


I am running NeXTSTEP 3.0 Beta here at work.  We have a large number  
Macintosh's also on the net, as well as a number of printers that are  
being used by the Macintosh's.  All of those printers are directly  
accessable to me via the net with NeXTSTEP 3.0.  So, as a test....

I printed a fairly complex postscript image to: (1) a LaserWriter Plus,  
(2) a LaserWriter IINTX, (3) a Varityper VT-600 (true 600 DPI--not some  
LED-pulse simulation on a 300 DPI engine), and (4) the NeXT Laser.

The result: the NeXT laser output quality stomped everybody but the  
Varityper.  Interestingly enough, some people thought the NeXT output  
looked as good or better than the Varityper.

Oh, and the performance results: the NeXT laser printer stomped everybody.

So, anybody that says ANY of the Apple laser printers are comparable to  
the NeXT just doesn't know what their talking about in my opinion.



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