Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!stc!idec!camcon!anc
From: anc@camcon.uucp (Adrian Cockcroft)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: heavy duty laserwriters
Message-ID: <1193@titan.camcon.uucp>
Date: 5 Feb 88 14:43:18 GMT
Organization: Cambridge Consultants Ltd., Cambridge, UK
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We have a network of SUN's with SUN (Adobe) Transcript software R2.0 and
a SUN (Apple) laserwriter. The load on the laserwriter is increasing
rapidly such that we are using a toner cartridge (~3800 sheets) in
5-10 days.

I am looking for recommendations on a more heavy duty postscript
laser printer that would use the same software on the SUN. Something
that can take 500 or more sheets of paper at a time rather than 100,
run at 20-30 pages/minute rather than 8, and print a lot more sheets
between toner fillups.

We also have a lot of hangups where the laserwriter stops printing and
the lpd deamon has to be killed/restarted so any views on this problem,
especially on whether the problem lies with transcript or the laserwriter
itself would be usefull.

Please mail me and I will summarise to the net.

Thanks in advance.


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