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From: furuta@MIMSY.UMD.EDU (Richard Furuta)
Newsgroups: mod.computers.laser-printers
Subject: 400dpi, 16ppm, PostScript printer
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Date: Fri, 12-Sep-86 10:09:41 EDT
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The following note went out on Info-PostScript:
   Date: Mon, 08 Sep 86 21:49:14 PDT
   From: rex@usgs3-vms.arpa
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   Computerworld, September 8, page 10, in an article covering the Seybold
   Desktop Publishing Seminars, mentions a new PostScript printer.

   Agfa-Gaevert announced a 400dpi, 16 ppm ("although it slows with heavily
   graphic pages"), $28k printer to be available in January, but they haven't
   lined up a US distributor.

   -- Rex

   (I have no financial [or other] relationship to the entities mentioned above)

I also received a press release on this printer.  Interesting points
from the press release are:

- The printer uses "LED array electro-photographic marking
technology."

- "The Agfa P400PS printer is the first PostScript-intelligent
printer developed by Agfa-Gevaert under its contractual agreement with
Adobe Systems.  The Agfa P400PS is the first printer equipped with the
Adobe 'Atlas' controller based on the 68020 processor and is able to
print up to 18 changing pages per minute.  The printer has a user
accessible 20 Mbyte Winchester disk, 1Mbyte font cache, and two 2 Mbyte
bit map memory.  While one page is being printed, the next page is
being prepared.  The printer supports RS232C, RS422, Centronics
parallel, and AppleTalk communication protocols, and comes with an
extensive set of built-in typefaces including the standard 13
typefaces from the Helvetica, Times, Courier, and Symbol type
families."

- This is the thirteenth currently announced PostScript printer.
Adobe says, "Announcements of several additional PostScript printers
will be shortly forthcoming."

						--Rick