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From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: bubble-jet
Message-ID: <1991Mar7.014000.25440@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 7 Mar 91 01:40:00 GMT
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Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
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Even under university discounts, since the original laserwriter Apple
has never released a printer that is price/performance competitive
with other printers (laser or dot-matrix) on the market.  This is
especially true of the recent personal laser printers.

HP has a reputation for quality that is unsurpassed throughout the
electronics industry.  I'm guessing that the price / performance *
durability of the deskwriter will remain unsurpassed.  What I'm
wondering is:

(1) What will be the cost of operating a bubblewriter (cents/page ?)

(2) Do you think HP might drop the price of a deskwriter when the
bubblewriter is released?

Don Gillies	     |  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
gillies@cs.uiuc.edu  |  Digital Computer Lab, 1304 W. Springfield, Urbana IL
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