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From: wave@MEDIA-LAB.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael B. Johnson)
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Subject: High-Quality Color Printers
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Date: 19 Jun 91 19:14:24 GMT
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Far and away the most impressive color printer I've seen is Kodak
"Continuous Tone" XL7???? (I forget the whole number).  We have one
here at the lab and it produces beautiful output.  It prints at 200
dpi, and can print a 2K x 2K image onto a 11" x 11" sheet of paper.
The paper is special from Kodak and feels like photographic paper
(i.e. similar to RC paper).  I'm not sure how much they really cost -
somewhere in the $10K to $20K range, I imagine.  Don't be put off by
the 200dpi number - the image quality is impressive.  the downsides -
not postscript, special paper (although nice), and expensive.  For a
given page, a sheet of paper is ~$2, and the ink is about $3.  Given
the way it prints, you use the same amount of ink per page whether or
not anything actually goes on the page.  People here use them for
one-of insertions in submitted papers or internal papers, and use it
for making overheads.  

Pricey, but the output is in a league by itself (I think).


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