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From: hrlaser@pnet02.cts.com (Harv Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Ink Jet's: What's best?
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Date: 24 Mar 88 08:20:51 GMT
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Speaking of printers... I just got back from NCGA'88 at the Anaheim
Convention Center (yes, CBM has a large "booth" there), and I saw the
most a m a z i n g new printer called the Pixelmaster from a company
named Howtek Inc.
      21 Park Ave.
      Hudson, NH 03051
      603-882-5200

The Pixelmaster just debuted in January '88.  It stands about 4' tall
and about 1' square, (picture a large floor-standing hifi speaker tower)
and retails in the neighborhood of $5000.  They had it spitting out
Mac II images but they know about the Amiga, they have one, and they're
working on a driver for it... the printer emulates HP Laserjet so they
have to "colorize" the driver. 

The printous are incredible.  Hard to describe the clarity and the
quality, but I saw examples of everything from a Linda Evans portrait
to a bowl of cut flowers to letterhead and whether it was fonts (very
small/very large) or human fleshtones and the nuances of blonde hair,
the reproduction was exemplary.  The printer uses plain paper (they
were running it with what looked like 20 pound bond).  "Ink" comes
in the form of crayon-like sticks that you just drop into a slot. 
They are melted and shot onto the paper, and the printer can spit out
a full page color pic in under 2 minutes.  The finished printout has
a texture to it, you can run your fingers across the page and feel
the pixels :-)

Perhaps they'll send you a sample printout if you give them a jingle.
If you do, tell them you want them to support the Amiga (even though
they said already that they will but a little reinforcement can't hurt!).

disclaimer: I'm not on Howtek's payroll, but the Pixelmaster really
knocked me out.  Just wanted yawl to know about it.

Harv Laser, Sysop, The People/Link AmigaZone.  Plink: CBM*HARV
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