Re: Need advice re a new laser printer

["Fredric Gross" fredric.gross@xxxxxxxx]

Eric --

I have had PagePro and Brother HL printers. For XY3, the key is the
manufacturer's version of PCL emulation. The more recent PCL versions are
not backwards compatible. I am doing fine with a Brother HL 1440; I even
bought a spare because I don't enjoy converting to Word. My PagePro was
slightly faster, but the PCL emulation was too high (and it also had an
early feed mechanism failure which cannot be economically corrected).

Fred



----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Vantassel" <101233.342@xxxxxxxx>
To: "XyWrite_user_group" 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 4:36 AM
Subject: Need advice re a new laser printer


> With prices (even here in the U.K.) falling steadily, I'm about to
> replace my HP 5L with a new low-end laser printer. Based on advice in
> magazines and looking most closely at cost (my criteria are [a] low
> per-page cost, [b] clean duplexing so I can use up the versos of all
> those rejected drafts, and [c] reliability since after only a few years
> my 5L demands to be fed one sheet at a time), I've narrowed my choices
> down to two probables:
>     Minolta PagePro 1300W
>     Brother HL-1430
> with per-page cost and design slightly favoring the Brother.
>
> Since I've been unable to purge either my XyWin or my XyDOS 4 of various
> corruptions, for some time I've been doing almost all my printing-out
> via conversion to MS Word. But I'm planning shortly to reformat my C
> drive and reinstall Win98 SE and all the programs, and I'm hoping then
> to reinstall both forms of XyWrite, and I'd love to be able once again
> to print direct from XyDOS. If that becomes possible, what printer
> driver should I be using, either from the original XyDOS 4 installation
> or downloadable?
>
> Thanks
> Eric Van Tassel
>