Postscript Printer suggestion?

[chays]

Can someone suggest an inexpensive b&W laserprinter? One with real postscript. I have seen a lot of older Apple Laserwriters on ebay, but have no idea which one would be a good one or which ones you can still get supplies for. I am using a G3 and want to print separations out of Quark Xpress or InDesign at home etc. As a result I am not certain a postscript emulator would work. Any suggestions?

Thanks

CH

 

[DDanc]

I have been trying out two printers by Brother with mixed results. The current one is a Brother 5050, with PostScript emulation and prints my Quark 4 documents and EPS files with no problem. Problems arise when I try to print other documents (word processing mostly: Word, WordPerfect, AppleWorks). Only one document will print, then I have to reset the printer every time. VERY ANNOYING. Brother tech support has been sympathetic, but they are stumped. One tech even implied I should upgrade my iMac G3. (I've had this printer less than 30 days and I'm going to trade it in for another brand. I guess I got what I paid for -- only $180 with rebate)

 

[chaosinc]

i guess my first question is:
what do you consider inexpensive?

i use several different hplaserjet printers.
4si, 5si, and 8150's

the 8150's are great printers, picked up my last one with a high capacity feeder modual for about 1500$

as for true postscript go go with an hp printer. after all they are the creators of postscript.

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[UncleRick]

This post off topic

@chaosinc

HP does make good printers but they did not create PostScript. They did create PCL, another PDL, but PostScript was created by employees at Xerox who left to create the company Adobe.

Here is hit number 1 on Google:

http://www.prepressure.com/ps/history/history.htm

 

[chaosinc]

unclerick>
my bad, seem to get those two mixed up lately.
ps, pcl, metacode....

i also run several xerox production laser printers.
seems that i run more pcl on the xerox's than the hp's, and more ps jobs end up on the hp's than the xerox's.

sorry if i caused any confusion.

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