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From: xdaa374@ut-emx.UUCP (William T. Douglass)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Seeking recommendations for PostScript printer
Message-ID: <7336@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 27 Oct 88 01:24:56 GMT
References: <4129@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: xdaa374@emx.UUCP (Bill Douglass)
Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas
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In article <4129@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> englandr@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Scott Englander) writes:
>Our department is planning to purchase a PostScript printer to serve ~15
>IBM PCs and 3 Macs on an AppleTalk/Phonenet network.  We have narrowed
>the list down to the following:
>
>NEC SilentWriter LC 890
>Has anyone had experience with these printers or these companies?
>
I strongly advise against the NEC printer.  We have been using one for a
little over a year, & the quality & speed for graphics output is very poor
(text-only is ok.)  The real bug-a-boo, though, is@service for the damn
thing.  NEC seems to have a dearth of qualified dealers & a lack of parts.
We were told that the torer discharge unit is backordered, and may take up
to SIX months to arrive!  Screw that, I say.

Also, we cannot find a dealer in central Txas who will take out a maintenance
contract on the printer. Nobody, even the company who sold it, wants to be
saddled with obligatory repair service for the 890.

Bottom line - too many problems, imcompetent service, and only so-so
capabilities.  Stay away.


-- 
Bill Douglass, TCADA

"I dreamed I was to take a test,
 in a Dairy Queen, on another planet."      L. Anderson