LaserJet III: Hewlett-Packard's new LaserJet scales type and smooths jaggies - and for a great low price
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Hewlett-Packard's LaserJet III laser printer will make scalable type the office standard in typography, giving memos, reports and newsletters a much more professional appearance. The $2,395 printer scales diverse typefaces in 0.25-point increments to 999.75 points; type can be rotated, shaded, reversed and mirrored, and landscape and portrait text can be combined on one page. The Resolution Enhancement technology in the printer uses variable-size, movable pixels to make the 300-dpi type and graphics generated look more like 400 or 600 dpi. Four CG Times and four Univers outline fonts based on Agfa Compugraphic's Intellifont format are included, and scalable typefaces are available from HP on cartridges and disks in the company's MasterType library. Version 5 of the Printer Control Language (PCL) accompanying the printer includes the HP-GL/2 vectored graphics format for merging graphics. The long list of features and low price make the LaserJet III a winner.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1990
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The bargain LaserJet: Hewlett-Packard LaserJet IIP
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HP's entry into the low-end, desktop laser printer market, the $1,495 LaserJet IIP rates as a top-notch product and a must buy. The IIP is fully compatible with HP's LaserJet Series II, using the same fonts and the same printer commands, as well as the same 512K of RAM. The IIP has a smaller print engine, but if anything its sharply defined characters are better looking than the series II's. The IIP does lack a few features found on the Series II such as interface capability with PostScript and speed, the IIP is rated at 4 pages-per-minute compared with the Series II's 8 ppm. The IIP, like other HP printers has weak supply of built-in fonts, but other fonts can be downloaded into the printer's memory.
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Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1990
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