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Subject: Texas Instruments OmniLaser printers
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Date: Thu, 29-Jan-87 10:11:40 EST
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Does anyone have experience with Texas Instruments new OmniLaser printers?
I have dvi2ps from mit via the University of Washington TeX distribution.
Sending the output from my Sun to an Apple Laser writer the characters look
fine.  Sending the same file to the OmniLaser 2115 the characters are much
too thin in many places.  Not only am I unhappy with the output, I can't
understand why, if I am downloading the fonts, the hardcopy would look
different on these two printers if they are both running PostScript.

I am also interested in maintenance experience.  This printer has a Ricoh
engine.  There is an Imagen on campus with another Ricoh engine which has
been no end of trouble.  The person who is in charge of the Imagen looked
at the OmniLaser and noted a great similarity with the other Ricoh engine.