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From: sdh@wind.bellcore.com (Stephen D Hawley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: color printers
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Date: 6 Jul 89 20:07:06 GMT
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In article <25481@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> trajmar@CS.UCLA.EDU (Peter Trajmar) writes:
>
>In article <372@ai.cs.utexas.edu> you write:
> Since it is a Postscript printer it
>should not have a problem with Illustrator documents (I don't know
>for sure). The price is commensurate with the fact that it is color
>and Postscript. It is thermal transfer and so I believe it can make
>transparencies. You can probably get info by calling 800 info
>(ie 1 800 555 1212) and asking for QMS. They also advertise in
>Macworld once in a while.

We have one of these here at work.  It does work just hunky-dorey peachy-keen
with the Mac and Adobe Illustrator.


It does transparencies pretty well.  Since it is four pass (cyan, magenta,
yellow and black) it is prone to non-linearities in the print so the layers
do not line up perfectly.  It also only has a SMALL limited number of pages
per ribbon set (less than 200 pages), and contary to what QMS says, it prints
best on expensive special paper.

Quality isn't too bad.

Steve Hawley
sdh@flash.bellcore.com