Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!clarkson!grape.ecs.clarkson.edu!nelson From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: PostScript Laser Printer for $995. Message-ID: Date: 4 Feb 91 06:09:50 GMT Sender: @grape.ecs.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu (aka NELSON@CLUTX.BITNET) Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 20 The January 1991 Computer Shopper has an ad for a $995 PostScript Laser Printer from The Printer Works. This is a refurbished Canon LBP-CX engine (new engine add $300), and a QMS JetScript controller, which is a IBM-PC card that controls the printer. They also have JetScript upgrades for the HP LaserJet, LaserJet Plus, and LaserJet II. Does anyone know if this is any good? They don't say if they're using Adobe's PostScript interpreter, although they do say that they're using Adobe fonts. I'm thinking about taking one of these puppies, putting it in a PC clone, dropping in an Ethernet card, then running a freeware LPD. I'm printing moby PostScript files, some as large as 4 MB, and I want to be able to send data faster than 9600 baud. -- --russ Humble Quaker, and damned proud of it. It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear -- Freeman Dyson I joined the League for Programming Freedom, and I hope you'll join too.