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Essentially, what you get for your extra money in one of these "smarter"
laser printers is a slower laser printer.

The cheap, fast printers with the simple page description languages can
generally perform all the desktop publishing needs of a typical user.

Never in my experience have I ever wanted to, or heard of anybody wanting
to put a full page of high resolution graphics out to a laser printer for
desktop publishing purposes.

Desktop publishing is almost always mostly text.  My LaserJet+ with
512K of RAM has only run out of memory once.  That's when I wanted 15
high resolution screen images on the page at once.  In this rare case,
I just pasted up this one page.  I'm willing to do this to save
$3,000.  (Actually, the memory upgrade on the HP isn't that much)

The right software can produce superb looking documents on a plain old
LaserJet with 64K of memory.  It's all you need for letters, manuals,
charts tables etc.

Systems like Postscript are an admirable attempt at presenting a more
abstract interface, but they are currently not written well enough to
be fast and cheap.  I'll take typesetting at a full 6 pages per minute
on a cheap laserprinter over fancy type expansion features on a slower,
much more expensive printer any day.

Imagen never got DDL running quickly enough - it's one of the reasons
they dropped it.

Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473
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