Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!cmcl2!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!WOLF@BBNG.ARPA From: WOLF@BBNG.ARPA Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: HP "Thinkjet" Message-ID: <977@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 18-Jun-84 13:27:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.977 Posted: Mon Jun 18 13:27:00 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 21-Jun-84 01:01:36 EDT Lines: 16 I've been intrigued by the trade journal PR on the HP inkjet printer this spring -- application is for a speech lab system which'll be built around a VAX/750, a VAXStation graphics display, and a bunch of other peripherals. The workstation will be rather remote from the CPU, and I need an inexpensive doesn't-need-to-be- superfast local hardcopy device that can run off both text listings and also provide reasonable renditions of the display. The HP unit looks interesting. Does anyone know anything about it outside of the advertising? I.e., reliability, print quality, etc? HP obstinately doesn't make it with an RS232 interface; anyone know how to interface a "Centronics interface" to a Unibus? Does anyone know of a newtork "interest group" to which this message could be forwarded to an appropriate, wider audience? Should I be considering some other kind of printer than this VERY CHEAP inkjet jobbe?