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From: kim@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Ink Jet's: What's best?
Message-ID: <25483@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 25 Mar 88 07:12:41 GMT
References: <2979@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Organization: Amdahl Corporation,  Sunnyvale, CA 94086
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In article <2979@gryphon.CTS.COM>, hrlaser@pnet02.cts.com (Harv Laser) writes:
> 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 . . .

There was an appetite whetting "sub-article" on this printer in the Sept. 87
issue of Byte Magazine by Jane Tazelaar. It's at the end of the feature on
color printing in general.  Good issue (for a change).

I was wondering if the beast would make it to the marketplace.  Glad to hear
it has, as the pics in the Byte article *do* look good.


>                                            The finished printout has
> a texture to it, you can run your fingers across the page and feel
> the pixels :-)

Seems like you can *see* texture in the sky of the fishing village in the
Byte article.  May be the result of their color mixing/dithering algorithm,
or be present in it original pic that was digitized.  The parrot on the 2nd
page shows this also, but to a lesser degree.


> 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!).

Yes indeed!  I hope they sell *lots* of them, so the price comes down just
a little bit ... $5K, I can't afford, but at $1500 ...

/kim



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