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The Value of Postscript Language Emulation Cartridges
Posted by: Concorde1993 on 2011-01-29 22:57:52
As the topic title states, I would like to find out what the monetary value of these emulation cartridges are, in addition to any background history. I found these at my high school (that place is a bloody museum) prior to semester 1 exams, which I completed last week. According to my principal, they were going to be thrown out, so I nabbed them.

They are designed exclusively for the HP LaserJet II & III series printers. All come with documentation, and software disks. I don't own any vintage Laserjet-series printers, so these things are completely useless to me for the time being, anyway. Pictures are provided below:

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Posted by: Concorde1993 on 2011-01-29 22:59:05
And one more...

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Posted by: Gorgonops on 2011-01-30 12:20:11
You could throw them up on eBay and see if anyone bites. I sort of doubt they have any real value since the printers they work with are 20 years old and too slow to really be practical for modern graphical work, but they might have some appeal to certain diehard niches. Some Wordperfect fanatic might take them off your hands.

(Postscript emulation cartridges used to be pure gold for making good use of a LaserJet II-series printer under WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS. Wordperfect had sophisticated page layout/formatting capabilities but was limited to using whatever fonts/sizes were present in the printer. A Postscript cartridge gave you scalable fonts, and thus free reign to format pages however you wanted. They weren't as big a deal with an LJII since PCL5 added Intellifont scaling.)
Posted by: LC_575 on 2011-02-01 20:18:49
Damn! Those would have fit my old IIP+!

Yet another reason for which I regret throwing it out.
Posted by: Concorde1993 on 2011-02-01 21:57:51
Damn! Those would have fit my old IIP+!
It's unfortunate you threw it out. Not only were the II & III series lasers great printers, but I could have sold these language cartridges to you at a negotiable cost.

Oh well, such is life. :beige:

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