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From: geof@imagen.UUCP (Geof Cooper)
Newsgroups: mod.computers.laser-printers
Subject: Re: Tale of Xerox marketing woe...
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Date: Wed, 6-Aug-86 13:50:02 EDT
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 >  Perhaps I am mistaken, but is it not true that the cost of speed in
 >  a printing engine is the mechanics, not in the electronics?  If so, then
 >  one would assume that the electronics (except those that drive the 
 >  mechanics) would be roughly the same cost from the bottom to top of the
 >  line, and, therefore, should support pretty much the same page description
 >  language.
 >      
 >  Adobe seems to be able to do that across a wide performance range of 
 >  engines, why can't Xerox?

Far be it from me to apologize for Xerox' sales force.  But you are being
unfair.  Xerox' line of interpress printers covers a range of printing speeds
from 10 ppm to 120 ppm.  This is a much wider range than anyone else in the
text-and-graphics world.  And the 9700 is MUCH faster than the nearest
postscript machine (40 ppm) on the market.

- Geof