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From: pavlov@hscfvax.harvard.edu (G.Pavlov)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Re: Laser printer and photocopier in one?
Message-ID: <568@hscfvax.harvard.edu>
Date: 23 May 88 01:40:11 GMT
References: <17394@cornell.UUCP> <314@elan.UUCP> <2524@kitty.UUCP>
Organization: Health Sciences Computing Facility, Harvard University
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Posted: Sun May 22 21:40:11 1988

In article <2524@kitty.UUCP>, larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes:

> 	A $ 1,650 laser printer is simply not that rugged or reliable.
> Period.  You get what you pay for.
> 
  I dunno about that.  We have been running a LaserJet II pretty hard since the
  day we purchased it (as a "line printer" to multi-user uVaxen and as the
  "office printer" to a batch of pc's).  It has held up just fine: no problems
  so far, except an aprrox. once-per-week paper jam - which takes two to 3 min-
  utes to clear up, and the LaserJet is pretty good at keeping track of where
  it is when this happens.

  If we push it hard enough to have to replace it in three years, I feel that
  we will have come out ahead financially anyway.  

  Ultimately, I expect that there will be cost-effective machines that pro-
  vide image input from several sources (as bit or character stream and in
  fax form, plus whatever a copier's scanner sends to its printer) and provide
  hard-copy or "standardized" computer-legible output.  This would allow me
  to replace a)fax machines, b)"printers", and c)scanners.  The time saved in
  hauling output from one to another would be worth it in and of itself.


  greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst, ny