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From: chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Dumb Laser Printers
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Date: 1 May 91 05:05:01 GMT
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sjcst2@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Scott J. Corley) writes:
>Mike , I hate to break this to you but Atari's been offering a dumb laser
>printer (no memory , no CPU) for use with their Atari ST since 1987. Next
>didnt invent the idea of using the computer's CPU and memory do the work
>necessary to print pages.


also, C Ltd had their Laser Express that did the same thing for the Amiga

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