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From: cca@pur-phy (Charles C. Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Color printer experience & recommendations?
Message-ID: <2592@pur-phy>
Date: 26 Sep 89 17:03:31 GMT
Organization: Purdue Univ. Phys Dept, W.Lafayette, IN
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I'm looking for a color printer.  The main use would be for paper and
transparency printouts for reports and presentations.  The three color
printers that are less than $3000 I'm aware of are the ImageWriter II,
the HP PaintJet, and the Tektronix ColorQuick.  A LaserWriter II would
handle the normal B&W jobs for our group.

I own an IW myself, and don't consider it to have acceptable
resolution for what we want.  I also don't know how it works with
transparencies, although I've heard you can use HP PaintJet
transparency paper.

The HP PaintJet is marginally better in resolution.  I've gotten mixed
responses about whether it requires special paper and what the output
quality is like.

The Tek ColorQuick has reasonable resolution, but the recent Byte
review implied that you really need to use special paper to get good
looking output.  The 11x17 paper-handling ability would be useful for
B&W drawings as well.

I'd like to hear from people who have used the PaintJet or ColorQuick.

Charles Allen		cca@newton.physics.purdue.edu