Path: utzoo!mnetor!frank
From: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacWorld
Keywords: Printers
Message-ID: <5063@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: 22 Aug 89 13:36:27 GMT
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Reply-To: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick)
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In article <550@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb) writes:
>In article <5061@mnetor.UUCP> frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick) writes:
>
>>I'm still waiting for 400dpi (or greater) PostScript-driven laser printers.
>>Any news on that front?
>
>Check the most recent MacUser.  They reviewed PostScript laser printers, and
>there were a few that were greater-than-300dpi resolution.  Or, there's
>always a NeXT machine....  :-)

Yes, I had read that. MacUser reviews two 'printers' with >400dpi
resolution. I put that in quotes because they're really low-end
typesetters (or like to advertise themselves that way), at a cost
3 - 4 times that of a 300dpi printer. (In addition, the Varityper
*requires* a maintenance contract at about $4,000 CDN a year.
From other reviews I've read, it needs it.) So, I'm still hoping
for a >300dpi printer at < $5,000. Sigh. (Still remembering the
magazine articles promising a flood of 600dpi printers two
years ago :-) I phoned Agfa-Compugraphic, btw, and was told that
their 'printer' wouldn't be available until the fall; they couldn't
send me any information or give me a price.


-- 
Frank Kolnick,
consulting for, and therefore expressing opinions independent of, Computer X
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