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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Help on laser printers requested
Message-ID: <1831@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: Thu, 8-Oct-87 18:43:10 EDT
Article-I.D.: gryphon.1831
Posted: Thu Oct  8 18:43:10 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 11-Oct-87 13:13:50 EDT
References: <8709301705.AA20894@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <777@ssc.UUCP>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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Keywords: Laser printers, color

In article <777@ssc.UUCP> fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes) writes:
>
>Now, printer suggestions.  We have a LaserWriter.  It works and was the
>only reasonably priced choice when we bought it.  We sell devps and
>therefore have customers with many different laser printers.  They vary
>from the TI Omnilaser to the Diconix.  The only complaints I have heard
>was a debate over print quality on the early Dataproducts model.  The new
>one that sounds like a great deal but I have no experience with is the 
>NEC one.  It has 300 dpi resolution like the rest but uses an LCD shutter
>and has a projected life of 600,000 pages.  It is in the $5,000 price
>range.
>
>Phil Hughes, SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549,

Lasers, lasers, lasers. The TI one looks funny when used with fonts
for other lasers as it is a white on black device, and most others are
black on white devices.

AST sells a (rf)Postscript laser for $3995. QMS has a remarkable line,
ranging from the PS800 (plain old (rf)PostScript) with three fonts
and a 68K @ 7Mhz to the new PS800 II which has 35 fonts and a 16Mhz
68K. They will introduce a 300 dpi color thermal dye transfer printer
next quarter, and have a 68020 color laser in the skunkworks sheduled
for release Q2 88.

There is an (gasp!) Amiga utility called IFF2PS that converts Amiga
IFF files to PostScript and does an absolutly FANTASTIC job of it. If you
guys have any way of converting your stuff to IFF and have access to one
of the 'A-Word' computers its certainly worth a try. It is truly amazing.

Disclaimer: I have a QMS printer, and I may be biased in this respect.

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Richard J. Sexton
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