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Subject: GCC Personal Laser Printer
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Date: Thu, 27-Aug-87 00:39:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: aicchi.968
Posted: Thu Aug 27 00:39:40 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 29-Aug-87 08:22:07 EDT
Organization: Analysts International Corp; Chicago Branch
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For those of you who might be interested, here are a few impressions regarding
the new QuickDraw based printer from General Computer.

(1) Its diminutive size makes it perfect for a single user. It comes with a
    tilted tray which holds about 60 sheets or so. There is also a provision
    for manually feeding sheets and envelopes for specific purposes.

(2) You might want to upgrade the physical memory of your machine to at least
    2Meg. There are one or two programs which force the printer to leave the
    interactive printing mode. You are notified that you will have to print
    the page(s) later using their batch facility. Again not a big problem for
    a single user, who does NOT have high volume.

(3) Fonts are quite nice. In my opinion as nice as those on the LW Plus. In
    addition there is none of the overhead incurred from loading them into
    RAM as on the LW Plus when using other than those embedded in ROM. You
    can have as many as you have disk space for.

(4) Prints MacPaint type pictures better than the LW. Does a very good job
    on MacDraw images as well. Have not as yet tried the output from a package
    such as Illustrator. It is claimed that it will work with Illustrator but
    will not do some of the fancier things such as "fountaining". Again this
    is a printer for someone who wants the clarity of laser printed text but
    also wants to retain graphic capability (albeit limited) for various
    reasons.

(5) I have tried it with almost all of the packages I own, and it works pretty
    much flawlessly. There is a list of known problems. But don't let this
    fact put you off. Try it out. The price makes its limitations matter
    a bit less.

(6) It currently ownly runs off a SCSI port, but there is a provision to have
    it access the serial port. When this is done you will have to use a RAM
    cartridge for which there is a slot. There are two SCSI ports on the printe
.

All in all I am very happy with the product. It provided an alternative to the
pricey LW's and still gives me the features I wanted most anyway. Ciao!

-- 
				Eric Geoffrey Vann
				Analysts International (Chicago Branch)
				(312) 882-4673
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