Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!mordor!sri-spam!nike!ucbcad!ucbvax!pogo.tek.CSNET!wellsm From: wellsm@pogo.tek.CSNET (Wells Matthews) Newsgroups: mod.computers.laser-printers Subject: Re: Are there problems with the LaserWriter Plus? Message-ID: <8608251803.AA15057@pogo.TEK> Date: Mon, 25-Aug-86 14:03:19 EDT Article-I.D.: pogo.8608251803.AA15057 Posted: Mon Aug 25 14:03:19 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 26-Aug-86 05:04:07 EDT References: <8608240701.AA28834@saturn.DEC.COM> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Wells Matthews Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR. Lines: 31 Approved: laser-lovers@washington.arpa My engineering group has purchased two Apple LaserWriter Pluses in the last 6 months; one about 6 months ago and one about 4 months ago. At that time our dealer informed us the the lead time on Pluses was several months, and was on a quota system from Apple. As has been stated recently in this newsgroup, it is our understanding that Pluses are shipped as regular LaserWriters with an upgrade kit. This upgrade kit consists of a new set of mask roms, with PostScript 2.0 and the additional rom-resident fonts. Fortunately for us, our local dealer accepted our order for the pluses on the condition we would have regular LaserWriters delivered to us at the time of the order and the upgrades would be delivered as they became available. The upgrades arrived about 4 months after the orginal purchase 6 months ago. We did the upgrades ourselves, NOT the dealer, and had no problems. As has been mentioned, older LaserWriters required some soldering to be done as part of the upgrade. However, since ours were fairly new, this was not required, the whole upgrade consisted of taking out the LaserWriter mask roms and inserting the LaserWriter Plus mask roms. After reading recent net postings on this topic I wonder if we were lucky. Both our upgrades went fine with no problems, to date we have had no problems with either LaserWriter Plus. Note: at some point Apple started shipping the regular LaserWriter with PostScript 2.0. Our newer one, had 2.0 while the 2 month old older one had PostScript 1.0. It is our understanding that PostScript 2.0 is marginally faster with text and does some overlapping processing: printing page n while building part of the bitmap for page n+1. We, did not, however, do any performance testing between 1.0 and 2.0. Wells I. Matthews