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From: tim@ggumby.cs.caltech.edu (Timothy L. Kay)
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Subject: Re: Color Printer & Scanner
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Date: 16 Oct 90 22:24:25 GMT
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Paul T. Moran writes:
>I heard from a local Businessland salesman that Next
>planned to come out with a color laser printer and a
>color scanner to go with it.

wjs@milton.u.washington.edu (William Jon Shipley) writes:
>The NeXT guys I've talked with have all said they are still eyeing this,
>but there is no color printer so clearly superior (and cheap) that they want
>to slap their name on the side of it.

There is a color scanner in the right price range, though.  Epson is
now advertising a 8.5"x11" 24-bit/pixel, one-pass scanner for $2000.

Tim