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From: captkidd@athena.mit.edu (Ivan Cavero Belaunde)
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Subject: Re: GCC PLPII NOW COSTS UNDER ONE THOUSAND
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Date: 26 Feb 91 16:23:00 GMT
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In article <1991Feb26.092340.15758@athena.mit.edu> josh@athena.mit.edu (Josh Hartmann) writes:
>Yes, GCC just announced that its FABULOUS PLPII (Personal LaserPrinter II)
>now costs $999.
>Their postscript edition costs $1999, which is very competitive.
>Now, I paid $1399 for my PLPII. Anyone think there's any chance I can
>get the upgrade for a bit over $600 :-)
>I doubt it.
>More like $1100.

Actually, I remember from when I worked for GCC that one of the cool things
they did was price the postscript upgrade for the exact difference between
the list prices between the PLP II and BLP II lines, they wouldn't
penalize you for buying one and then upgrading. So the upgrade is
probably still $1000.

I'm really like the GCC PS printers, since besides the obvious reasons ;-),
I do believe they're some of the best deals around. Two features that I
seldom see highlighted in reviews are:
	a) SCSI port for DL fonts and font cache, a la NTX. You can hook
		up a $300 40 megger and your printing speed goes up
		significantly when using DL fonts and large resident fonts.
	b) Use of standard NTX SIMMs for RAM upgrading ($40-50 vs. $150-up).
		PostScript is a memory hog on large pages, and upping
		the RAM from the std 2MB to 4MB can make a big difference.
So what people really don't mention is that you can buy yourself a seriously
good performance PS printer for $2499 (BLP IIS, 8ppm) + $300 (40 meg external
HD) + $100 (2MB fx/NTX SIMMs) = $2899 (which used to be the list for the
BLP IIS before the price drop).

I have no relation to GCC except as an ex-employee and a very happy ex-user
of their printers (our site has a LW2NT, so I've been demoted ;-(). Take it
as you will.

Later,

-Ivan Cavero Belaunde
Visualist
DiVA, Digital Video Applications Corp.

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