Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!ariel!ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au!u3364521 From: u3364521@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (Lou Cavallo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: An interesting idea... Message-ID: <1991Apr30.232919.1969@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> Date: 30 Apr 91 13:29:19 GMT References: <3867@dali> <1991Apr26.134120.18412@convex.com> Organization: I.A.E.S.R., Melbourne University Lines: 40 G'day, I'm not singling out Steve's commentary other than as an example of the ideas for a cheap laser printer coupled with an NIL (Not In Laser) Post Script to bitmap rendering engine ... Steve Warren (swarren@convex.com ) writes: [...] > But the performance/cost ratio would be quite high. And it should be > cheaper than a typical postscript printer (which costs ~$3000). my only thought is that the time to be developing these ideas into some products has probably come and gone...now that it seems that PostScript printer prices are beginning to come down in price. Such products would be cheaper for a while but I am guessing only for a short while, your mileage may vary (always wanted to say that). I thought I'd seen that *really* cheapo PostScript boxes go for about a US$1000 price level. No? .... This whole thread reminds me of a proposal (vapourware?) by various de- velopers to produce a s/w h/w combo for bitmaps in RAM & then dump them to the dumb (cheap) laser printer. If I haven't forgotten totally this wasn't a PostScript rendering engine and I think I read about it around the time the A2500's were announced! .... What about some ideas for a new thread on cheap hires colour printing ? (I'm ignorant) so is there a way that CBM could get into giving the Ami some cheap(ish) high quality DTV and DTP hardcopy? yours truly, Lou Cavallo. PS: Steve, personally I kind of like your scheme for a fast(er) SCSI HD and CPU based print server. Indeed I wouldn't be surprised if there are high end standalone laser printers that allow SCSI data paths for print data from a PC.