If Superman were a printer...; Hewlett-Packard breaks ground with a faster, sharper printer

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HP introduces a new laser printer, the $5,495 Laserjet IIISi, which is well suited to office printing needs. The printer is powerful, robust and fast enough with an output high of 17 pages a minute. The Laserjet IIISi produces 300 dots per inch (dpi) print resolution, but the quality is said to be so good that output is hard to distinguish from print generated by 600-dpi printers. The IIISi has slots to facilitate attaching directly to a network, either Token-Ring or Ethernet, using Novell Netware or 3COM 3+OPEN operating systems. The IIISi does not need to be attached via a print server, so managers have more flexibility in placing it on a network. One Mbyte of memory and the HP PCL 5 printer language, with 13 built-in Intellifont type fonts, is included in the base price. The IIISi will be available in spring 1991 with 2Mbytes of memory and the Adobe Postscript language on a chip, for $6,595. Designers say that the IIISi is a culmination of years of researching customer needs.

End users, User Need, HP LaserJet IIISi (Laser printer)

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On getting started in multimedia

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Multimedia is the buzz word of the 1990s, signifying the fusion of sound, graphics, animation and video in computer applications. Entry to the multimedia realm requires a moderately powerful microcomputer, CD-ROM drive and several other pieces of hardware and software, most notably a sound card. Adlib Multimedia Inc introduced the first sound card in 1987 to make games play music, setting a de facto compatibility standard. Creative Labs' Sound Blaster cards improved on Adlib's product and generated an additional standard of their own. A good contemporary sound card is Media Vision's Pro Audiospectrum 16. Older cards use 8-bit sampling to generate acceptable speech sounds, while the Audiospectrum 16 uses 16-bit sampling to produce CD-quality music. The board fits into a microcomputer's 16-bit expansion slot, complies with Microsoft Corp's Multimedia PC standard for Windows and offers a MIDI interface for music.

Electronic computers, Printed circuit boards, Purchasing, Equipment and supplies, Column, Computer peripherals industry, Multimedia technology, Multimedia systems, Sound processing, Equipment Acquisition, Hardware Selection, Boards/Cards, Expansion boards, Boards/cards (Computers), Creative Labs Inc., Aureal Inc.

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Beyond daisywheels: a new printer

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Hewlett-Packard has made a laser printer that is hard to resist. The Laserjet IIP (listed for $1,495 but available for under $1,000) is 14 inches wide, 16 inches deep and 8.25 inches high; it weighs 22 pounds. The Laserjet IIP has both serial and parallel ports, so that it attaches to a computer with either kind of a plug. It prints up to four pages a minute, and it holds 50 sheets of paper in its tray. A built in typeface - Courier - comes in six combinations of spacing, size and weight, plus one version of a face called Line Printer. Additional fonts can be purchased. The Laserjet IIP comes with 512Kbytes of memory, but depending on the application, 512Kbytes gets used up fast. The IIP can hold up to four Mbytes of additional memory, but the cost will range from $200 to $350 a megabyte.

HP LaserJet IIP (Computer printer)

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