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From: tttron@escher.lerc.nasa.gov (William Krauss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re:  hardcopy output info wanted
Message-ID: <1991Feb5.163340.2694@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
Date: 5 Feb 91 16:33:40 GMT
References: <9101301716.AA00832@aero4.larc.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: tttron@escher.UUCP (William Krauss)
Organization: NASA/Lewis Research Center, Cleveland
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In article <9101301716.AA00832@aero4.larc.nasa.gov> blbates@AERO4.LARC.NASA.GOV ("Brent L. Bates AAD/TAB MS361 x42854") writes:
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>    The Kodak unit I saw was model XL 7700 Digital Continuous Tone Printer.
>I just got a flier from Kodak on it the other day, looks impressive...

It is VERY impressive.

>     They sent a sample copy, looks like a photo...

It probably LOOKED like a photo (but was a print nonetheless).
My colleagues inform me (I didn't do the purchase) that the approximate
cost was $20k (ballpark) - that's Government rate. The cost per paper color
print is a bit less than $4, for transparencies is about $4.50. The price
is quite reasonable for the qualtiy output. It also prints a number of
image formats inlcuding: rgb, tiff, WHIP, Sun raster, Mimps, Alias, Pixar,
X window dump, Targa, Stardent, and RAW binary (probably forgot a few).

Anyway, we've used it here at Lewis and the most people are generally
astounded at the quality. 

It's worth investigating.

There you have it.
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