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From: barry@confusion.ads.com (Barry Lustig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: How did they make the printer so cheap?
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Date: 18 Oct 88 17:15:56 GMT
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In article <5807@zodiac.UUCP> jshelton@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.  I got
	suspicious when I heard that there was a specific PRINTER port for the
	machine.  Anyone got the real scoop?
	
	=John=


All of the postscript is in the CPU box.  A raster image is blasted
down to the printer for printing.

barry