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From: cudac@daisy.warwick.ac.uk (Tim Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Re: Heavier Duty Postscript Printer Survey Results
Summary: Agfa P400PS attacked and defended
Keywords: Agfa P400PS
Message-ID: <520@sol.warwick.ac.uk>
Date: 15 Apr 88 12:12:08 GMT
References: <1292@titan.camcon.uucp> <449@sering.cwi.nl> <910@kbsc.UUCP>
Reply-To: cudac@sol.warwick.ac.uk (Tim Clark)
Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
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In article <910@kbsc.UUCP> yorick@kbsc.UUCP (Yorick Phoenix) defends the Agfa
P400PS following the article <449@sering.cwi.nl> in which fmr@cwi.nl
(Frank Rahmani) raises some points against it.

We've run a P400PS for nearly a year now, and in summary I would say that
there ARE problems, but they can be sorted out if you keep on at Agfa for long
enough.

In this part of the UK (Midlands - near Birmingham), Agfa's service is not all
it could be. The main problem seems to be that Agfa haven't got many
service technicians trained up on the P400PS yet.

On quality and paper jams, we kept on at Agfa until it was sorted out. Now
we're quite happy. We used to run it with the standard univerity issue copying
paper (the cheapest the university can get hold of). Agfa said this was the
cause of many paper jams and poor quality output. They suggested we use
Agfa paper. We thought this sounded like a typical sales ploy. We did try the
Agfa paper, and (to our suprise) the results were far better.  The Agfa P400PS
certainly seems to be far less tolerant of lower quality paper than other
engines. Low quality paper causes paper jams and blotchy output. If you are
prepared to pay the extra 0.2p (0.002 pounds sterling) a page extra the
Agfa paper (and I would guess other similar less absorbent paper) gives
good results.

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