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From: c3ar@zaphod.uchicago.edu (Walter C3arlip)
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Subject: Re: Laserwriter Recommendation Wanted
Message-ID: <1990Sep28.200329.2869@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 28 Sep 90 20:03:29 GMT
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In article <4282@husc6.harvard.edu> Cherry@Frodo.MGH.Harvard.EDU (J.
Michael Cherry) writes: 
>GCC has a very inexpensive Postscript SCSI printer called the PLP  
>(Personal Laser Printer). I saw it at MacWorld in Boston and it looked 
>very good. The font technology is good, the toner is cheap and the list 
>price is around $1400. 
>

Thought I'd better correct the slight inaccuracy here:  The PLP is a nice
laser printer, but it is *not* postscript.  The PLP is a quickdraw printer.
(I've seen it as inexpensive as $1200).

GCC *does* make a nice postscript printer as well, the BLP ("business laser
printer", I think), which is similar to the PLP with postscript added.
This printer costs more like $1999 (from a GCC dealer).  That makes it
competitive with the other new "personal" laser printers on the market,
like the Apple Personal Laserwriter, the QMS PS-410, the TI-Microlaser, the
HP Deskjet IIP, etc., all of which are roughly in the $2000 range.

These printers all differ somewhat in their capabilities: they have
different marking engines and speeds; different kinds of input trays, etc.,
etc., so there is quite a bit of choice.  Unfortunatly, though, I still
know of no postscript printer for less than about $1800.

--Walter


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