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From: WOLF@BBNG.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: HP "Thinkjet"
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Date: Mon, 18-Jun-84 13:27:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 18 13:27:00 1984
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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?