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This combined with Corel Draw, PageMaker (for Windows 3.0) and WordPerfect 5 (for DOS) ruthlessly ruled my world in '90.

by cowmix 4y ago

xbar 4y ago
Same. Also, I liked thinking that a McCoy Pauley construct lived in my printer.
- duskwuff 4y ago
  "Do me a favor, boy." "What's that, Dix?" "This scam of yours, when it's over, you erase this goddam thing."
tpmx 4y ago
I feel like the 600 DPI HP Laserjet 4 produced better printouts 30 years ago than what I'm getting from modern laser printers, but perhaps that's just fuzzy memories... That point in time was a bit odd; it was exciting to do "desktop publishing".
- jeffreygoesto 4y ago
  No no. My 4050 does just fine and prints as sharp as ever. Must be approaching it's 20th year of operation now.
  - tpmx 4y ago
    Well, in that case it's also not modern, is it? :)
    - mastazi 4y ago
      I think parent is replying "no" to GP's > but perhaps that's just fuzzy memories... so essentially P agrees with GP.
      - tpmx 4y ago
        Oh, ok. :)
- Sunspark 4y ago
  It's not your imagination. They did print better even at 600 dpi. Output quality will vary from manufacturer to manufacturer, but I wasn't impressed when some years ago I purchased a Samsung laser and noticed that it had tiny little notches on the letters that my previous printer did not have. Of course the Samsung repair shop couldn't do anything about it as no firmware updates were available. I think the general effort from manufacturers to print pages fast and cheap also meant that quality had to change for the worse. Perhaps the toner didn't adhere as well anymore because it needed higher heat for a shorter duration, etc.
  - tpmx 4y ago
    I have a Brother "laser" LED-printer; DCP-1510. Super affordable, supposedly 2400 × 600 DPI, but in real life nowhere near the quality of a 600 DPI HP Laserjet 4 from 1993. I don't mind spending more money on a high quality printer - the problem is that I have no idea what that printer is. Noone is doing print quality tests these days.
    - antod 4y ago
      I don't really have printers at all any more, but cheapish Brother "laser" printers were my preference for low volumes on Linux and still being able to get networking/duplex/postscript etc. I too had no faith that spending more would get a better printer elsewhere. I have good memories of Laserjet 4 and 5 series printers from the 90s though.

This combined with Corel Draw, PageMaker (for Windows 3.0) and WordPerfect 5 (for DOS) ruthlessly ruled my world in '90.

by cowmix 4y ago

This combined with Corel Draw, PageMaker (for Windows 3.0) and WordPerfect 5 (for DOS) ruthlessly ruled my world in '90.

xbar 4y ago

Same. Also, I liked thinking that a McCoy Pauley construct lived in my printer.

duskwuff 4y ago
"Do me a favor, boy." "What's that, Dix?" "This scam of yours, when it's over, you erase this goddam thing."

tpmx 4y ago

I feel like the 600 DPI HP Laserjet 4 produced better printouts 30 years ago than what I'm getting from modern laser printers, but perhaps that's just fuzzy memories... That point in time was a bit odd; it was exciting to do "desktop publishing".

jeffreygoesto 4y ago
No no. My 4050 does just fine and prints as sharp as ever. Must be approaching it's 20th year of operation now.
- tpmx 4y ago
  Well, in that case it's also not modern, is it? :)
  - mastazi 4y ago
    I think parent is replying "no" to GP's > but perhaps that's just fuzzy memories... so essentially P agrees with GP.
    - tpmx 4y ago
      Oh, ok. :)
Sunspark 4y ago
It's not your imagination. They did print better even at 600 dpi. Output quality will vary from manufacturer to manufacturer, but I wasn't impressed when some years ago I purchased a Samsung laser and noticed that it had tiny little notches on the letters that my previous printer did not have. Of course the Samsung repair shop couldn't do anything about it as no firmware updates were available. I think the general effort from manufacturers to print pages fast and cheap also meant that quality had to change for the worse. Perhaps the toner didn't adhere as well anymore because it needed higher heat for a shorter duration, etc.
- tpmx 4y ago
  I have a Brother "laser" LED-printer; DCP-1510. Super affordable, supposedly 2400 × 600 DPI, but in real life nowhere near the quality of a 600 DPI HP Laserjet 4 from 1993. I don't mind spending more money on a high quality printer - the problem is that I have no idea what that printer is. Noone is doing print quality tests these days.
  - antod 4y ago
    I don't really have printers at all any more, but cheapish Brother "laser" printers were my preference for low volumes on Linux and still being able to get networking/duplex/postscript etc. I too had no faith that spending more would get a better printer elsewhere. I have good memories of Laserjet 4 and 5 series printers from the 90s though.