BKPRNBBL.RVW   960421
 
"Winn L. Rosch's Printer Bible", Winn L. Rosch, 1996, 1-55828-436-2,
U$34.95/C$48.95
%A   Winn L. Rosch
%C   115 West 18th Street, New York, NY   10011-4195
%D   1996
%G   1-55828-436-2
%I   MIS Press/M&T Books/Henry Holt
%O   U$34.95/C$48.95 +1-212-886-9378 fax: +1-212-633-0748, +1-212-807-6654
%O   76712.2644@compuserve.com http://www.mispress.com fburke@fsb.superlink.net
%P   639
%T   "Winn L. Rosch's Printer Bible"
 
Ten years ago, I would have loved a book like this.  At that point new printing
technologies were arriving at a furious pace.  In order to obtain the best
results from your printer, or even just access "new" features such as
background shading, you had to delve into documentation that made today's
computer manuals look like "Little Golden Books".  Maintenance people and
computer suppliers had little idea of the requirements for these new machines. 
Printer drivers were largely unavailable unless you could find a standard
emulation.
 
But that was then, and this is now.  Rosch's book does contain a lot of
interesting, and some helpful, information for the average user. 
Unfortunately, it also contains a great deal of content on machines that most
people will never see anymore.  While there are a number of technical support
people who may have to deal with such dinosaurs, the text doesn't contain
enough information to be really helpful at that level.  The result is a work
that is dauntingly thick for the personal user, but unreliable for the
professional.
 
If you have several hours to devote to it, this book will give you a very solid
background with which to purchase a printer.  It won't tell you how to print
from tray two in Word for Windows.  While more generic than "The Underground
Guide to Laser Printers" (cf. BKUNLSRP.RVW), this work is nowhere near as
useful.
 
copyright Robert M. Slade, 1996   BKPRNBBL.RVW   960421

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