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From: ianh@bhpmrl.oz.au (Ian Hoyle)
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Subject: Re: Hardcopy from 4D
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Date: 1 Oct 90 22:26:12 GMT
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nkenig@andrew.ATL.GE.COM (Neil S Kenig) writes:


>I'm looking for reccomendations for hardcopy output from 4Ds.  I need
>to produce both paper and transparencies.  I'm interested in fairly
>high quality, i.e. something better than a color laser printer or a
>thermal wax printer that has only a few colors and dithers the rest.
>I'm most intrigued by the new thermal dye sublimation printers.  I
>prefer a device with a digital input, as opposed to analog RGB, so
>that it can be used as a shared resource among several machines
>networked together on Ethernet (Suns & SGs).

I saw a Kodak XL7700 printer with drivers for the SG being shown by
GW Hannaway at Siggraph '90 on the SGI stand  -  looked *great*, albeit 
a bit pricy.

			ian
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