Date:         Tue, 27 Jul 1999 17:17:36 -0700
Reply-To:     "William W. Viergever" <wwvierg@IBM.NET>
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From:         "William W. Viergever" <wwvierg@IBM.NET>
Subject:      Re: Buying a printer for SAS/Unix
Comments: To: "hcheng@erac.com" <hcheng@erac.com>
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I've been using Lexmarks for over 10 years (am an old OS/2-er and HP never did OS/2 drivers - or they were always one or two models behind).

Also, w.r.t. PCL modes, it seemed like there were a broader set of "symbol sets" available for different fonts under the Lexmarks where as the HP "symbol sets" all seemed limited.

I may be rambling a bit here, but what I mean is that their font cartridges, etc. that had the higher order ASCI characters I needed for use with the smaller fonts (line draw chars mainly vs. the higher order HP ASCI fonts that all seemed to have just the "umlot" type of European-looking characters).

Bottom-line: go with the best drivers.

HTH




be that umAt 03:25 PM 7/27/99 -0500, H. T. Cheng wrote:
>  We are aquiring a new printer for SAS under Solaries and we kind of have
>to chose one from the following:
>
>        LexMark Optra S 1855 N
>        LexMark Optra S 2455 N
>        HP 8905 si
>        HP 2500 cxi
>
>  Among other things, it has to print SAS graphs and text outputs (small
>fonts of 6 and 8 point required) well and efficient.  I would assume all
>these printers support Postscripts.
>
>  We are running SAS 6.12 and hopefully version 7 or 8 later on.  This
>printer will be very likely hooked to the unix box directly with some
>possibility of going through a NT printer server.
>
>  Can anyone give me some advise and your preference?  Thanks in advance!
>
>
>Harry Cheng
>htcheng@erac.com

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