Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 14:41:54 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Joao Pedras <jpedras@mail.telepac.pt> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: postscript printer 4 FreeBSD Message-ID: <375AEB22.FAD0EF02@3-cities.com> References: <XFMail.990606214555.jpedras@mail.telepac.pt>
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Joao Pedras wrote: > > Only the bigger models (from HP) seem to have PostScript 3. That would blow up > the budget for this $:) I'm looking like you are. I need a Postscript printer but keep wavering because of the Postscript 2 and 3 problem. I like HP hardware and only have problems with the initial software that goes out with some of their products. Xerox and Lexmark have Postscript printer's but I don't know what their duty cycle is. I really like the appearance from the 4000. I think you would get a similar appearance from the 2100m. The only thing you would miss is duplex printing but you could purchase two 2100m's for the price of a 4000 with duplexing added. I've talked people into buying the 4000 but just can't quite do it myself. I bought an HP-1600c when they were new models and regreted it after about two months. The printing by HP-89x's, which had 600x600 color, was so much better than 300x300 color from the 1600 was that there wasn't a comparison. Duty cycle on the 89x's was 1000 pages of black and 160 pages of color a month. I was printing more than 1000 pages of color a month. It was a question of durability or appearance and durability won. > > Do you recomend printer(s) from other manufacturers ? What do you use ? I use HP. I don't have any experience with any other printer manufacturer. Kent > > On 06-Jun-99 Kent Stewart wrote: > > > > > > Joao Pedras wrote: > >> > >> Hello all! > >> > >> I'm looking into buying a postscript printer for my workgroup. I am thinking > >> about the Hp 2100M printer, which has postscript. Is someone using this one > >> ? > >> With what sucess ? > > > > The problem with the HP 2100m is that it is a Postscript 2 and 3 is the > > current version. > > > > For a workgroup, I think the HP-4000 is a better printer. Unfortunately, > > it is also Postscript 2. It has a heavier duty cycle. The most > > significant benefit from the 4000, from my point of view, is that you > > can also purchase a duplexer and print on both sides of the paper. I > > hate manuals that I have to flip every page. Think of a copy of the > > FreeBSD handbook in two 2" binders instead of 8" of binders. > > > > Kent > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Sent on 06-Jun-99 at 21:35:51 > Powered by FreeBSD -> http://www.freebsd.org <- "The Power to Serve" > PGP key available upon request or may be cut at > http://members.tripod.com/fbsd/pgpkey.html > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a "realist," he > is preparing to do something he is secretly ashamed of doing. > -- Sydney Harris -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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