Re: 6L

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

> And I'm still not convinced anyone is likely to need better than 600
> d.p.i. for plain text documents.
I strongly disagree. You only begin to get good looking text at 1200 dpi,
especially in diagonals (stairstepping in an N is visible at 600 dpi) and
in a font with any kind of delicate features. But Jordan is absolutely
right about the loss of metal in printers about 4 or 5 years ago. The last
'heavy' Lexmark printer was the initial Optra line -- great stuff, and 1200
dpi. The primarily plastic stuff we're seeing today simply does not last as
long. But note how remarkably cheap these printers are. Do the
manufacturers really have any choice, given how stingy we all are? I gladly
paid $3000 for my first laser printer -- a dreadful (by today's standards)
Kyocera ... but who would pay so much today? I know purported typeface
designers who won't even buy the cheap laser printers we have today. My
experience with compact HP lasers like the 6L is that they don't hold up well.