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From: wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu (William M. Bumgarner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: How did they make the printer so cheap?
Message-ID: <0XKoeky00UgXM3T24=@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 18 Oct 88 13:44:16 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon
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The printer is _NOT_ a postscipt printer. It is a modified Cannon print
engine (accpets LaserWriter II toner cartridges) that prints pure bit images.

Since the computer is running Display Postscript, it builds the image and
then bit-blasts it out the printer port to the printer.  In either 400DPI
or 300 DPI (draft-- HAH!) mode.

That is why the printer is so cheap-- no networking, no CPU, no internal
memory (small buffer, anyways), nothing other than the propieatary interface
and the engine...

b.bum
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