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From: john@spock.UUCP (John Desrochers)
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Subject: what laser printer to buy ?
Keywords: purchase printer
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I am posting this for a friend who has no direct net access;
I will collect any and all responses & pass them on him.
John

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greetings.

i must choose what laser printer our group is to purchase.
my boss has listed several features and restrictions, which are:

     - DEC compatibility :-(
     - speed over 10 pages per minutes (15 would be good)
     - large paper tray (500 pages/tray)
     - up to around 12000$ (canadian) (around 9000$ US)
       -- more if the printer is very good
     - be able to print TeX files
     - service in the montreal region a plus

i have added:

     - postscript compatibility
     - HP LaserJet and/or HP-GL emulation would be nice

the 500 sheet-tray seems unlikely to me; most of those i have
seen have 250 a sheet-tray with one or two optional supplementary trays.
also, i don't think TeX will need anything special, if the printer
uses postscript.  (am i wrong?)

my boss recently changed the priority of this from `think about it' to
`top-of-the-heap important'. most of the searching i have done has been in
digital review (05 december 1988 and 28 august 1989). i have come up
with the following printers which would be acceptable:

     - laser leader mark I (by BGL technology corp.)
     - LZR 1260 (dataproducts corp.)
     - LaserImage 3000-IS (personal computer products inc.)
     - QMS-PS 1500 (QMS inc.)
     - 1590 printstation (talaris)
     - PageLaser 12 (toshiba)
     - LCS 15-DSK (wang laboratories inc.)

any and all comments are welcome. in particular, i am looking for
your experiences with any of these printers, or with any you know which
would fit the above requirements. i would also appreciate sources
(other than digital review) on laser printers.

if there is sufficient interest, i will summarize and post
the answers i receive.

thanks in advance for your help.

marc desrochers
national research council, canada
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