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From: greenber@swatsun.uucp (Peter Greenberg)
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Subject: NEC Silentwriter LC-890 Printer -- comments?
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Date: 19 Jan 88 22:53:48 GMT
Organization: Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA
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I saw these stats in Digital Review, 11 Jan 1988 pg. 70, on the NEC Silentwriter
printer.

There were many other printers listed but this seemed the most cost-effective.
And it is made by a Japanese company that won't go away any time soon.             
- Non-lasing LED engine (proprietary?)
- 8 ppm
- 300 dpi
- 3000 copies per toner cartridge, $20/cartridge
- 5000 copies/month, manufacturer's figures
- $399 routine maintenance every 100,000 copies, vendor didn't know exactly what
- Diablo 630, HP LJ+ emulations
- PostScript, 35 Adobe (LW+) fonts
- Alleged "3 MB memory" in salestalk with vendor, processor???
- Centronics, RS232C, RS422, AppleTalk
- 8.5 x 11, legal, European
- Desktop size
- lists $4795, quotes in NYC at $3500 range
- compare $4000 quote for LW+, $100/cartridge

Seems pretty good. Sales person mentioned some problem with Centronics from PC's
but I want to run off Sun3 on serial. Are the operating costs as
low as advertized? As a side, anyone know how these non-LW machines do with Mac
boxes which I think sometimes do strange things, like down load machine code?
Anyone know the processor? Is this better than an LW+, or worse, for the $$$ ?
Is it selling well enough that the carts. will be long available?

Summaries to the net.

Peter

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