Path: utzoo!mnetor!frank
From: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacWorld
Keywords: Printers
Message-ID: <5066@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: 26 Aug 89 13:22:07 GMT
References: <13546@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <501@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <5061@mnetor.UUCP> <13822@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick)
Organization: Computer X (CANADA) Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lines: 27

In article <13822@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> captkidd@athena.mit.edu (Ivan Cavero Belaunde) 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?
>
>Well, in the MacWorld Expo report I posted, I mentioned a company called
>LaserMAX, which was displaying a number of new products.  First, it had
>3 Nubus boards which attach to a LaserWriter (any model) and drives the
>engine directly, providing 600x300 dpi resolution and *much* faster
>performance.  The 3 models vary in the amount of on-board memory (2M, 4M,
>and 6M), which then affects processing speed.  It basically had an optimized
>Postscript-compatible Raster Image Processor (RIP) on the board, ...

I remember your review, and I didn't think you mentioned PostScript
compatibility. From a brief 'new products' review I read, LaserMAX
is really LaserMaster, who makes a similar product for the PC and
regularly places obnoxious ads aimed at John Warnock (Adobe Systems).
The PC version of the board uses Bitstream fonts, and the magazine
article didn't mention PS-compatibility. I'm also pretty sure the LaserMAX
ad I read (but no longer have) didn't mention it. Sorry to be long-
winded about this, but if the LaserMAX stuff really can upgrade my
LaserWriter, I'll be happy. But my question is: are you sure?

-- 
Frank Kolnick,
consulting for, and therefore expressing opinions independent of, Computer X
UUCP: {allegra, linus}!utzoo!mnetor!frank