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From: CXT105@PSUVM.BITNET (Christopher Tate)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Imagewriter trouble & possible replacement
Message-ID: <89325.192717CXT105@PSUVM.BITNET>
Date: 22 Nov 89 00:27:17 GMT
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In article <5330@internal.Apple.COM>, casseres@apple.com (David Casseres) says:

>In my humble and personal opinion, an ImageWriter on a network is the
>punchline of a Polish joke.  For the price of 9 ImageWriters or their
>replacements, you can get a Postscript laser printer or maybe two of them,
>and be happy.

This brings up a big question that's been stewing around in my head for a
while now:

How much use/abuse are LaserWriters supposed to be able to take?  For example,
the public Mac labs here have about 3 ImageWriter II's for unrestricted
printing from the network, and one or two LaserWriter II's at 20 cents per
page, handled by VendaCard machines.

The LaserWriters are actually printing something over 50% of the time, in some
cases this is 24 hours a day.  Also, depending on the demand at that time
during the semester, they may be operating nearly 80% of the time.  (These
are rough estimates.)

Is the LaserWriter IINTX built to take this kind of use?

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