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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.laser-printers
Subject: Re: PostScript & HP emulation
Summary: PostScript & LaserJet Plus Emulation
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Date: 1 Jun 88 21:47:50 GMT
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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."