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From: baulch@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Garth Baulch)
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Subject: Re: Laser printer and photocopier in one?
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Date: 18 May 88 15:51:08 GMT
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In article <1988May16.062813.17006@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>People who are knowledgeable about such things tell me that the two-in-one
>deal doesn't work very well.  In principle the functions are similar, but
>in practice the machinery has to be tuned for one or the other to give good
>results.  The only ones I've heard of are a couple of expensive turkeys
>from Xerox.

Actually, in my search for such a beast, I visited an accounting
office here at Cornell that was using the Xerox 4045 laserprinter/
photocopier.  The kind secretary who took time to talk to me about it
had nothing but praise for it.  It had a very high duty cycle, the
copies and the prints were both of very high quality, and it gave them
no maintenance headaches at all.  The only salient negative about the
printer I saw was its size--nearly three feet long by fourteen inches
deep by six or seven inches high.  Lots of table space needed.

I called the Xerox rep at Cornell, who informed me that although the
4045 was not a PostScript device (no surprise there), he had heard
rumours that there was a PostScript version in the works.  The 4045
costs about $6,000, which is reasonable, but the appropriate Xerox
service contract is is a rip-off.

I haven't heard of any other similar devices on the market anywhere.

--Garth
  baulch@svax.cs.cornell.edu