It's a daisy wheel replacement,' he said referring to business letter-quality printers that hammered metallic characters in one font through an inked ribbon onto the page. It took another presenter, John Warnock, president of a 27-employee company called Adobe Systems, to compare the LaserJet in slightly more diplomatic terms. 'The text and fonts it prints are nowhere as beautiful or ambitious as what we're doing here.' 'It doesn't do graphics worth beans,' he went on. 'Because HP is brain-dead!' he exclaimed. So, when I asked Jobs why someone should spend twice as much on Apple's laser printer, he went ballistic. The LaserJet was $3,500 the LaserWriter, $7,000. Both could turn out 300 dots per inch (dpi) documents at eight pages per minute in gorgeous silence - quite a feat in a time when conversations were regularly cut short by the repetitive impact from an office printer. Both printers used the same Canon engine modified from Canon's copier technology. 28, 1985, a month before he would turn 30, Steve Jobs unveiled the LaserWriter at a press event in New York. The original Hewlett-Packard LaserJet had come out the year before when on Jan.
