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From: kg@elan.elan.com (Ken Greer)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: LaserJet II: Soft vs Hard Fonts
Message-ID: <608@elan.elan.com>
Date: 8 Aug 89 15:13:18 GMT
References: <5130001@vantage.UUCP>
Organization: Elan Computer Group, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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From article <5130001@vantage.UUCP>, by ray@vantage.UUCP (Ray Liere):
> We have a LaserJet II and use soft fonts. ...
> We are now in the position of not having enough memory for some items that
> we print -- that is, there is not enough memory to hold the needed downloaded
> fonts.
> 
> IT SEEMS TO ME that, rather than buying more memory, I would be better off
> buying one or two of the "super font cartridges" 

Depends on your software.  If it handles soft fonts well, I'd go with
an extra memory board.  The super catridges do have lots of fonts,
but the soft font sets have lots more!  If you get a super
cartridge, those are all the fonts you'll ever have.  If you go with the
extra memory, you'll solve your problem, and also have the flexibility
of using oodles of other fonts. I recall an extra MB of LJ ram costs 
about what these catridges go for, so I'd go for the RAM.  1MB extra
ought to do it for most folks.

Ken Greer  Elan Computer Group, Inc. 888 Villa St. 3rd Floor Mt View CA 94041
Phone:     415-964-2200
Internet:  kg@elan.com
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