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From: jensen@gt-eedsp.UUCP (P. Allen Jensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: How did they make the printer so cheap?
Summary: NeXT Laser Printer - No CPU or Memory
Message-ID: <533@gt-eedsp.UUCP>
Date: 18 Oct 88 16:16:58 GMT
References: <5807@zodiac.UUCP>
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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In article <5807@zodiac.UUCP>, jshelton@deimos.ads.com (John L. Shelton) writes:
> How can NeXT possibly make a postscript printer to sell for $2000?
> I'm afraid to find out, but I suspect that the printer has no CPU and
> memory.  More likely, the printer uses the NeXT CPU and memory.....

Correct, John !   The $2000 printer has no CPU or memory.  There is
a special high-speed laserprinter port on the NeXT box that connects
to the laserprinter.  The laserprinter is basically just the cannon
print engine with no control (ie cpu and memory) electronics.

Since NeXT uses Display Postscript, a (hopefully) good postscript
interpreter is already there waiting to be used.  As long as one
remembers that this is supposed to be a one-person-one-machine
workstation, that should not be a big problem unless you print lots
of large documents.

P. Allen Jensen
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P. Allen Jensen
Georgia Tech, School of Electrical Engineering, Atlanta, GA  30332-0250
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