European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 29, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Hewlett Packard s laser Jet ii Printer is smaller and less expensive than its forerunners. Laser printers special purpose computers by or. Shannon new York times he Standard in business correspondence used to be the electric typewriter with its Crisp Clear letters so when the personal computer began to replace the typewriter the Printer of Choice was the Daisy wheel which is basically an adapted typewriter head the Daisy wheel named Lor its Flower like arrangement of letters numbers and other characters around a circular Gadget a Daisy produced pages that were every bit As Sharp As the typewriter s the trouble with the Daisy wheel was its Lack of Speed and versatility although it could turn out words faster than a human typist could a Speed of 35 characters a second was not uncommon it was Olill slow compared Wilh what the computer was capable of churning out and to could produce Only the characters that were actually on its wheel forget about graphics or different Type laces the next step was the Dot matrix Printer which built characters out of a matrix of tiny wires 9 or. More recently 18 or 24 that put Ink dots on the paper. It was much Aster than a Daisy wheel the problem was that the dots were too often visible and the characters sometimes crude the Dot matrix Printer gave the computer printout a bad name. Better Dot matrix printers could be used in what was usually called near letter Quality Mode that is almost As Good As a Daisy wheel. The Trade off was lost Speed which also meant a longer time for listening to the irritating whine. For most of us however the Printer s ability to produce graphics a variety of Type laces and anything else the software Programmer had thought of was Worth the Trade Oil. Only the fuss Iest manager correspondent or editor could object to its Quality at its Best. Then there were Ink Jet printers which squirted the dots on the Page and laser printers essentially an adaptation of photocopying technology. Laser printers were fast versatile and capable of producing pages so Good they almost looked As if they had been professionally typeset the trouble was that they were also big heavy and very expensive it was hard for an individual or Small office to justify the Cost. Now Hewlett Packard has made a laser Printer that is hard to resist. Its new laser Jet ii is 14 inches wide 16 inches deep and 8 25 inches High weighs 22 pounds and carries a list Price of $1.495 but it is available for less. I found one shop that was Selling it for $965 setting up the ii is a snap the getting started  with line drawings details the Steps so clearly remove the inn scr from ils Box that a Novice should be Able to follow them the Only possible hitch is editing or creating an Auto exec Bat file the collection of commands that the Dos operating system looks Lor when you turn your computer on but with care the task can be accomplished even when As in my Case there was a mysterious conflict Between commands in my current file and a command the ii requires. The Printer has both serial and parallel ports so it can be attached to a computer with either kind of plug it prints up to four pages a minute slow by laser Printer standards and holds 50 sheets of paper in its tray not enough for a Busy office but adequate for Home or Home office use a 250-Page tray is an optional extra the built in typeface is courier which comes in six combinations of spacing size and weight plus one version of a lace called line Printer additional lots May be purchased irom Hewlett Packard and other suppliers either in the lorm of cartridges that plug into the Printer or on disk a laser Printer is a special purpose computer with a mind of its own. Because it produces whole pages at a time rather than one character alter another that mind must have sufficient memory. The 512 kilobytes that come Wilh the ii Are enough for Ordinary text but once you Start mixing ion.3 or adding graphics memory gels used up fast. An uncomplicated Page made Wilh Timeworks publish it program was too much or the Printer. The ii can hold up to Lour megabytes of additional memory but plan on spending $200 to $350 a megabyte. In addition to the getting started  the package contains a detailed manual a software applications notes Book showing How the Printer works with seven popular programs and a Little catalogue of supplies and accessories. The Toner Cartridge included in the Purchase Price should be Good Lor about 3,500 pages the company says. Replacement cartridges sell for about $70. Now your letters Loo can look As if you sent them out to a Job shop for printing. Stripe classified your weekly marketplace classified ads appear Overy Weeh m sin pos a gait to place an and. Complain a Coupon inc Udina t cock or Money of a do not Send Cash payable m u 5 dollars to the Start and strip fund ecn-874. Mail o the stars and stripes. To 266. 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