On Jan 29, 2004, at 7:35 AM, Don Wakefield wrote:
I have been looking at a new HP Laserjet 1300 printer and have a few questions which the salesman was unable to answer. I bet there is someone on the list who can answer them for me, so please offer your recommendations.
1) There are 2 models of the 1300, one with ethernet built in, which is $200 more expensive than the other. There are external "print server" boxes which sell for $50 and feed the parallel signal to the printer while offering an ethernet socket to the network. Do you think the "overhead" of the "server box" would be noticable to a typical "moderate" user like myself? (I have so many places I could put the $150 difference in cost, assuming that I could live with the results.)
So long as the external print server supports either Appletalk or lpd and is reliable. Many only work with Windows.
Me, I'd spend the extra and get the HP with the built-in ethernet. HP JedDirects are bulletproof...we have dozens around the College, and they work perfectly with Macs.
In fact we have long had fewer problems printing direct to the JetDirects than we've had printing via the windows print queues on our server.
2) The model states it uses the HP language to "emulate" Postscript 2. I only have experience with the Laserwriter II, which to my understanding uses the original Postscript. Will the emulater truely be faithful to a "licensed Postscrip chip" results and will the overhead questions of emulation noticably bog down the process?
With the caveat that we don't do insanely complex Postscript here, we've never had major problems with HP's Postscript emulation on any of their models, and it's not an 'emulator'.
Postscript is an interpreted language, so 'real' PS and PS clones like HP's are just different interpeters.
The 1300 is a decent printer. we have some of them around, they've worked ok so far.
They likely share the same problem, however, that all of HP's low end laser printers have, namely, they don't have an on/off switch. With the older ones, they'll get confused and refuse to print on occasion, and you have to unplug them to reset 'em.
Now, I haven't had this happen with any 1300's, but we haven't had any of them for very long, maybe 6 months at the most.
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Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group
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