Drulard, Ted wrote: > Her Apple Personal LaserWriter NT finally starting giving us problems > and we're looking to replace it. She still does work with Postscript > programs so we need that capability, and we'd like to have color. Does > it need to be Laser? You tell me. But we'd like to have something we > can both connect to and get PS output. Laser + color = $$$$$$$$$$$ If she has any large-ish Adobe programs (PageMaker, FrameMaker, probably Photoshop), they come with Acrobat Distiller for making PDFs. She could distill to PDF then print to any printer (that you can install a driver for) from Acrobat Reader. > We looked at an HP 4 Color personal laser printer that had HP > Postscript, but the local Apple retailer told my wife that HP PS is > not good for Quark output from an Mac because it's not Adobe PS. He > then suggested something he sold for 4 to 5 times greater price. > Question 1) Is HP Postscript that much different from Adobe Postscript > that it would cause us problems? It can cause problems in certain circumstances, according to some FrameMaker users. (I use Frame at work and subscribe to a couple of mailing lists; there have been occasional problems with HP's PostScript emulation.) Note that I print almost exclusively to HP printers at work & don't have PostScript issues, but they're not color printers. > Question 2) What do people here recommend for a Postscript printer to > output Quark type documents? I don't use Quark, so I can't really speak to what works best with it. Personally, I'd just make PDFs and print to whatever I have available, but that's just me. :-P > Question 3) Should we combine the above printer with color output or > get a separate color printer for photos & such? You could buy a B&W laser printer, an inkjet photo printer, and Acrobat Pro (for PDF manipulation), and still save big bucks over what you'd spend on a color laser printer. So yeah, I'd get a separate color printer unless I really needed it and could write it off on my taxes. -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t "The hardest part of all this is the part that requires thinking." -- Paul Tyson, on xml-doc