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Subject: Re: high-speed Postscript printers
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Date: 18 Apr 88 13:38:40 GMT
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>TI Omnilaser: write-black yields some print-quality problems, but not
>	overwhelming; prints Scribe "articles" (mostly Roman with some
>	bold or italic) at 15 ppm, TeX output somewhat slower, complex
>	graphics a lot slower (but faster than a Laserwriter)
>Based on this information, the TI OmniLaser looked like the best bet at the
>time, with the LPS-40 for those to whom price and DECNET expertise are no
>object.  
>
>Keith A. Lantz			    Phone: (415) 496-6235

The TI Omni-loser eats through OPC belts like crazy.  They say that
they last for 25,000 pages.  What they really mean is 25K revolutions.
If you do something really radical like print different pages in one
job :) you get 2-3 revs per page.  Our OPC life is near 8000 pages.

If you buy service for $1295, don't expect anything more than a fix if
your printer craps out.  They don't do preventative maintenance.  The
TI guy told me to "read the manual, it tells you how to take care of
it".  This was when my OPC belt crapped out after 2000 pages when I
(carefully) picked up the printer and moved it.  Thank goodness we
only have one of these.

Yes, I know its about the only printer in that price/performance
range, but are the headaches worth it?

Oh, about the PrintServer 40 installation, it took me an afternoon to
install both the Support Host and the Client software.  The
installation was well documented.  I had one minor glitch (a created
account wasn't given quota), but it really didn't affect operations
(just logging) and DEC support knew the answer right away.  Affording
the thing is the hard part.

These are my opinions, I don't think my employer has any.

Ted Ede -- ted@mitre-bedford.arpa -- The MITRE Corporation -- Burlington Road  
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