Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: RE: Looking for a portable printer?
From: Harold Climer <HCLIMER%UTCVM.bitnet@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 11:46:06 EST
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In-reply-to: Your message of Sun, 20 Dec 1992 14:24 CST
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On Sun, 20 Dec 1992 14:24 CST you said:
>From: kolstad@cae.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad)
>Date: 20 Dec 92 02:46:14 CST
>Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
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>For those of you who are in the market for a portable printer, check out
>HP's new portable DeskJet.  I just got one (Merry Christmas to me, Merry
>Christmas to me...), and it is one slick device.
>
>- The print speed seems just as good as the regular DeskJets.  It kicked
>out a 300x300 DPI MS-Word page in just about 40 seconds.  (Compared to the
>original DeskJet, which a friend of mine has, which takes 4 MINUTES to kick
>out the same page!)
>
>- The battery is said to be good for 100 pages, although I haven't seen
>just how true that is.
>
>- Just printing straight text, it'll do about 2 PPM in letter quality mode
>and 3 PPM in draft mode (lighter printing).
>
>- It's a real DeskJet, speaking PCL 3, which gives it a large advantage
>over, say, the Canon printers.  No offense to Canon... :-) (In fact, rumor
>has it that the mechanism inside the portable DeskJet is made by Canon.)
>
>- This thing looks beautiful on my desk.  It's jet black, with gray buttons.
>HP clearly has some decent people working on the ergonomics and appearence of
>their devices.
>
>- I got the cut sheet feeder, which holds 50 sheets.  The entire setup
>(printer + cut sheet feeder) can be folded flat so it's easy to lug around.
>
>Needless to say, I am impressed.  And no, I don't work for HP... but I use
>a ridiculously large number of their products these days, so I may be a
>little biased. :-) (If only HP would start making watches again...!)
>
>						---Joel Kolstad

               Joel,
                    Can you get a carring case for it. ie similar to ones
people carry their Laptops in ? My brother is thinking of upgrading from his
Epson 24 pin printer. ( Which he will give to me. ) He got a Gateway 2000 66MHz
486 and I guess he figures he must move up to a fancier printer too; which is
entirely O.K. with me.
                   BTW I have finally launched myself into the Messy Dos world.
When my brother bought his 486 I got his old computer. A 386 20MHz which I am
in the process of upgrading to a 386 40 MHz with 128K cache memory,Co-Processor
and 8 Megs of SIMM RAM. ( Had to,unhappily,because I could only get it to run
at 10 MHz with the turbo switch in, and the repair shop couldn't fix it)
                   Still have my Commodore 128 and I am going to keep it; for
situations just like the above. In fact I am writing this note on the Mainframe
at school through a modem and my trusty 128. Is's still good for somthing other
than a big paper weight. Happy Holidays.


                                        Harold Climer
                                        Physics Dept.
                                        U. Tennessee at Chattanooga
From: akcs.trw@hpcvbbs.cv.hp.com (Timothy R. WIllis)
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 22:40:02 GMT
Subject: HP 97 Card Reader Problem  :(
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