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There are many things that you can do with PostScript that
are much harder to do with a printer that doesn't have a
page description language.  However, you do surmise correctly
that the main difference for the casual user is in the range
of fonts and sizes that are available.  The original
LaserJet was very limited in the fonts that it supported.
The later versions support downloadable fonts, but generally
in a smaller range of sizes (i.e.  you get certain sizes and
not others) vs. PostScript, in which all fonts are scalable
to whatever size you want (at least up to 127 point).

And yes, the LaserJet is much faster than the LaserWriter,
and is probably preferable if you are doing simple stuff.

We switched to the LaserWriter because PostScript made it
easier to include Mac illustrations etc. into troff
documents (you can do bitmaps on the LaserJet, but not
PostScript pictures) and because with PostScript we could go
right from the LaserWriter to typesetting on our Linotronic
L100 typesetter.
-- 
Tim O'Reilly (617) 527-4210
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., Publishers of Nutshell Handbooks
981 Chestnut Street, Newton, MA 02164
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