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From: BILL@CS.COLUMBIA.EDU (Bill Schilit)
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Subject: Dataproducts LNZ-2660?
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Date: Thu, 21-Nov-85 22:04:29 EST
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Has anyone seen, or does anyone have an LNZ-2660?  This is a
PostScript printer made by Dataproducts, and mentioned a while back on
this list.

Does anyone know if the 10MHZ clock cycle of the LNZ 68000 vs. the
LaserWriter's 12MHZ cycle makes a difference?  Or the effect of 2MB
RAM on the LNZ vs the 1.5MB on the LaserWriter?

A number of companies are OEM'ing the Dataproducts machine under a
different name -- like Apollo computer's Domain/Laser-26 -- has anyone
seen any of these?

At $20,900 the LNZ-2660 is about equal to 4.5 LaserWriters.  It is
only 3 times as fast (max speed is said to be 26 pgs/min) but has a
duty cycle 10 times the LaserWriter (LNZ rated at 40-50K pages/month
the LaserWriter at 4K).  

The capacity (duty cycle) of the machine seems to be a major buying
reason.  Can anyone think of other reasons -- or perhaps why a handful
of LaserWriters would be preferable?

The Dataproducts LNZ-2660 was scheduled for production deliveries in
November when I sent away for information last September.  Now
deliveries are scheduled for January, but the people I talked to said
OEM shipments are going out and there are a few evaluation models
available.

As far as I can tell Dataproduct's LNZ machine (and OEM versions) are
the only PostScript printers near delivery, or being delivered, aside
from the Apple LaserWriter...  

- Bill
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