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From: dale@lightning.UUCP (Dale Mensch)
Newsgroups: comp.laser-printers
Subject: Re: LaserMaster -- Any Ideas
Summary: net access == NULL
Keywords: High Resolution, Laser Printers, Plain Paper Typesetter
Message-ID: <9007120321.AA28502@crayola.cs.UMD.EDU>
Date: 27 Jun 90 23:51:47 GMT
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In article <9006190354.AA22008@crayola.cs.UMD.EDU>, henry@angel.Eng.Sun.COM (Henry McGilton--Desktops Spoke Here) writes:
> There's this outfit called LaserMaster Corporation advertising
> Anybody out there have any knowledge of this outfit, exactly
> what they sell, and how real they are?
I worked with several software guys that are now at LaserMaster.
At lunch last week, one of them told me that their access to any
sort of network communication outside the facility is non-existent
(don't expect them to reply/defend/explain anything here).

They seem to be real.  The local paper had an article on them
recently: ca. $18M revenue in the last 9 months.  LaserMaster
also recently bought The Company, an outline font supplier
(a Bitstream spinoff?).

LaserMaster is real PC (more recently Macs, too) oriented: 
Windows drivers, Windows screen drivers, high-res QuickDraw
printers, etc.

Beyond the hype, some printer tech publication (Seybold? Publish?
MacUser??) recently stated that they can do halftones at 1000x400.
Not a *REAL* typesetter (ie: addressability vs. resolution).
They've run recent want ads looking for toner chemists, so who
knows what they've got...

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"Half guesses, half supposition, all disclaimed."
Dale Mensch-Xerox Corp/Intran Operation.-Mpls. MN.- uunet!intran!dale