----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Does anyone have experience with printers that will help me make a decision between the two following options for a printer for a Map Library digital workstation (486/CD-ROM)? We have a strictly limited budget and an urgent time frame. Following email recommendations (I think it was Maps-L) I asked for a Hewlett Packard ink jet 1200C Postscript. It has 4 meg RAM expandable to 26. 600x300dpi in black and white, 300dpi colour. It has come in over budget and I am being told that in any case it will be EXCRUCIATINGLY SLOW for our mapping purposes. I am being offered instead a Lexmark (IBM subsidiary) 4039-10R Laser Printer with enhanced graphics processing (PQET, Picture Grade). Postscript. 600 dpi with built in 39 postscript fonts, 13 scaleable and 14 bitmapped. 4 meg RAM expandable to 16meg. Prints text at 10pages/minute. But it is only black/white. Should I sacrifice colour for speed? Ink jet for Laser? Has anyone experienced frustrations with the Hewlet Packard? Many thanks for any thoughts you can offer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [log in to unmask] Tel:613 788 2600 ext 2515. Fax:613 788 3909 Map Library, D299 Loeb Building, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ont. K1S5B6 -------------------------------------------------------------------------