Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!tness7!killer!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!ucbvax!optilink.UUCP!cramer From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) Newsgroups: comp.laser-printers Subject: Re: PostScript & HP emulation Summary: PostScript & LaserJet Plus Emulation Message-ID: <8806201655.AA00671@brillig.umd.edu> Date: 1 Jun 88 21:47:50 GMT References: <8805311552.AA12506@brillig.umd.edu> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA Lines: 30 Approved: laser-lovers@brillig.umd.edu In article <8805311552.AA12506@brillig.umd.edu>, wieland@pur-ee.UUCP (Jeffrey J Wieland) writes: > > We are looking for a laser printer that does both PostScript and LaserJet Plus > emulation. We have been looking at the NEC Silentwriter LC890. Does anyone > have experience with this printer? Any suggestions for other laser printers? > > Jeff Wieland > wieland@ecn.purdue.edu Apple LaserWriter IIntx is a PostScript printer with HP LaserJet Plus emulation. However, in looking over the manual, I am a little skeptical of how useful the LJ+ emulation will be, since they use the native PostScript fonts, not the LJ+ fonts, which will give serious problems for character spacing. Further, their LJ+ emulation claims to give the font requested, not the font an LJ+ will give. For those of you confused by that last statement: the LJ+ printers give the nearest matching font to the one requested. On an LJ+ printer, you request a font by the characteristics of the font you are requesting (i.e. Roman, 10 pt. landscape, bold, proportional, 8-bit ASCII), and the LJ+ locates the font that it has available which is the nearest match. "Nearest match", of course, may mean something like 12 pt. semi-bold 7-bit ASCII, Helv, if there's nothing closer. This is a real kludge of the LJ+ command set -- but it means the LaserWriter IIntx emulation of the LJ+ is frequently going to be far, far from what a real LJ+ will produce. Clayton E. Cramer "PostScript -- or nothing."