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From: jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: How did they make the printer so expensive?
Message-ID: <17784@glacier.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 18 Oct 88 20:04:13 GMT
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Reply-To: jbn@glacier.UUCP (John B. Nagle)
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     $2000 is not a particularly good price for a laser printer.  The going
rate for HP LaserJet type machines is around $1700.  There are a number of
dumb laser printers, with a bus interface to PC-type machines and processing
done by the PC cpu, in the same price range.  The slight increase in 
resolution (from 300 to 400 dpi) is not spectacular; there are already 600dpi
machines out.  Yes, it's cheap for a PostScript printer, but it isn't a 
PostScript printer, it's a dumb printer with a PostScript emulator in the
host.  No big deal here.

					John Nagle