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From: debra@alice.UUCP (Paul De Bra)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: How did they make the printer so expensive?
Message-ID: <8314@alice.UUCP>
Date: 19 Oct 88 17:43:25 GMT
References: <5807@zodiac.UUCP> <17784@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> <7542@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
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Organization: AT&T, Bell Labs
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In article <7542@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> dyer@arktouros.MIT.EDU (Steve Dyer) writes:
>In article <17784@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> jbn@glacier.UUCP (John B. Nagle) writes:
>>$2000 is not a particularly good price for a laser printer. The slight
>>increase in resolution (from 300 to 400 dpi) is not spectacular; ...
>
>I don't understand these sentiments.  400 dpi is 77% greater resolution than
>300 dpi; this is slight?...

I fully agree. A have seen results for the same postscript input, printed on
the Agfa 400dpi and on an Apple Laserwriter, and the Agfa was A LOT better.
400 dpi is much better than 300dpi. Though I too want to see the NeXT printer
first, cause it still uses the Canon engine everyone else only produced
300dpi printer with, doesn't it?

Paul.
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