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From: reid@DECWRL.DEC.COM (Brian Reid)
Newsgroups: mod.computers.laser-printers
Subject: Re: Are there problems with the LaserWriter Plus?
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Date: Sun, 24-Aug-86 03:01:00 EDT
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We had several LaserWriters upgraded into LaserWriter Pluses.
It didn't work terribly well. One of them now hangs reasonably often,
and another one died completely. The one that died completely was taken
in to our Apple dealer for servicing, and after about a month of
frustration, he removed the upgrade and converted it back into an
original LaserWriter; he was not able to make it work any other way.

I know several other people who have had to have LaserWriter Plus
upgrade kits removed in order to get the machines working again. In
every case the failure mode is that the machine just does nothing when
you turn it on: no poweron page, no nothing.

I have therefore decided not to upgrade my own personal LaserWriter; I
can't afford to have it stop working.

On the other hand, I do not know of any factory-original LaserWriter
Plus machines that have problems. The whole difficulty seems to be in
the field upgrades (2 out of 3 upgrades to our machines have caused
problems).

Brian Reid