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From: patwood@unirot.UUCP (Patrick Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.laser-printers
Subject: Re: Request for information about color printers
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Date: Wed, 7-Oct-87 15:00:00 EDT
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$20K for a color PostScript printer is probably about right:  the printer
is based on the Mitsubishi 300DPI thermal engine, which runs about $9K.
Then you have the color controller which must interpret PostScript:
minimum of 2M memory (assuming that the controller performs three or four
passes over the code, once for each color), probably around 6-8M (1M per
color plus extra for programs, fonts, cache, etc).  Maybe the printer has
a disk drive like the Varityper 600DPI PS printer?  That would jack up
the price.

Pat Wood