Applelaserwriter 360 - Any suggestion for good replacement?
Dear Context List users: in the old days the AppleLaserwriter 360 was an exceptional printer with very good Postscript support for the Basic postscript fonts. I am now at a loss in deciding which Laser printer to purchase in a reasonable price range with postscript support, a reasonable amount of ram and network support. I would welcome hints from List users as to their recommendations and suggestions, also from the TeX and Context point of view. Color support is not the most important factor, while graphics is. Giulio Bertellini
Giulio Bertellini wrote:
Dear Context List users:
in the old days the AppleLaserwriter 360 was an exceptional printer with very good Postscript support for the Basic postscript fonts.
I am now at a loss in deciding which Laser printer to purchase in a reasonable price range with postscript support, a reasonable amount of ram and network support.
I would welcome hints from List users as to their recommendations and suggestions, also from the TeX and Context point of view. Color support is not the most important factor, while graphics is.
we recently bought an oki 5900 (in addition to the big oce b/w printer); we also have an hp 130n; if i had to decide now, i'd also look into ink jet printers since they're getting fast too and i may decide to go for an xerox.com phaser-8860 (solid ink) since toner often looks like crap ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
Hans Hagen wrote:
if i had to decide now, i'd also look into ink jet printers since they're getting fast too and i may decide to go for an xerox.com phaser-8860 (solid ink) since toner often looks like crap
We have a Phaser 8400DP here and I find the output not as sharp (text) as with our b/w HP LaserJets. (I sometimes see some dotted ghost lines at some places; I don't know where they come from.) Additionally, I think it uses a lot of "solid ink" when turned on. This might be not a problem for the office where it is always on (like here, including during the night), but for home that would be not the right thing. ;-) Otherwise, I find the solid ink (which reminds me on wax crayon) quite nice to handle, it works quite well with also more complicated files and the colors look quite nice. Tobias
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