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Subject: Magnetic Printer
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Date: Sun, 25-Dec-83 20:05:49 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec 25 20:05:49 1983
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From WMARTIN@OFFICE-3 Sun Dec 25 17:05:44 1983

The following is a message I just read in and extracted from the Info-Graphics
quasi-digest. I thought that it might be of interest to Laser-Lovers.

I know nothing of this besides what is in the message itself, but it
seems intriguing.

Will Martin

Extracted message:

Date: Tue 20 Dec 83 11:05:28-PST
From: Bill Park <PARK@SRI-AI.ARPA>
Subject: Re: The Magnetic Printer: Successor to Laser Printers?

Anyone interested in laser graphic printers should also look into a
new printer from Cynthia Peripherals, Inc. (sorry I don't have their
address handy).  It uses magnetic instead of electrostatic forces to
hold the toner onto the drum.  The drum is a rugged magnetic metal
alloy instead of the delicate, easily-scratched photoconductor used
in laser printers.  The image is written onto the surface of the drum
as a magnetic pattern by a row of magnetic heads instead of by a
laser/optical scanner system.  Also, it uses only one liquid instead
of two.  Speed and resolution are as good as our Imagen but the
contrast of the print sample they sent me is much higher (even the
small type is really black!).  The price is $27,000 & up for the
printer.  Their current brochure does not mention any interface
hardware/software such as you get with an Imagen, however.

Although the price seems high, there are very few moving parts and no
easily-damaged parts.  So, the machine may make up for it in increased 
uptime and in not having an expensive drum to replace every
time the paper jams badly.

Bill Park,
SRI International

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