From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax
Newsgroups: fa.info-vax
Title: Re: inexpensive laser printers
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.220
Posted: Sat Dec  4 17:05:46 1982
Received: Sun Dec  5 09:28:37 1982

>From FRANK@UTAH-20  Sat Dec  4 16:45:58 1982
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Remailed-From: the tty of Geoffrey S. Goodfellow  <Geoff5 at SRI-CSL>
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While I agree with almost everything that Brian said, one point about the
xerox 2700 may be worth considering:

Xerox is more than happy to rent you a 2700 on a month-to-month lease for
about $600 per month (including, I think, 10,000 copies).  Thus, it remains
a minimal-commitment arrangement while you wait for  something reasonable
to come along.  Considering you have to shell out $20K or so to purchase
any of the other options, the rental of the xerox 2700 in the interim may
be worth considering.

Also, the Unilogics people (Scribe) have told us that the 2700 will
be supported for normal Scribe work as part of the "basic" package (i.e.,
it won't be an extra charge driver).  Thus, once again, if you are a Scribe
user, renting a 2700 for the short term may represent a low-risk
alternative.

Finally, it's not totally clear if the DEC LN01 (based on the 2700 marking
engine) has al the restrictions of the xerox 2700.  In particular, we have
heard several people inside of DEC claim that w/ the LN01 you will be able
to send arbitrary bit maps (something you cannot currently do with the
2700).
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