Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac:23896 comp.text:2891
Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!basselope!shiffman
From: shiffman%basselope@Sun.COM (Hank Shiffman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.text
Subject: Re: Jasmine LaserPrinter
Keywords: Laser Printer Laserprinter Mac
Message-ID: <81243@sun.uucp>
Date: 13 Dec 88 00:45:17 GMT
References: <1055@naucse.UUCP>
Sender: news@sun.uucp
Reply-To: shiffman@sun.UUCP (Hank Shiffman)
Distribution: na
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View
Lines: 25

The Jasmine Laser Printer is manufactured by Qume.  I got a good look
at one of these at Comdex.  The printer uses a RISC processor which
was designed as a printer controller and runs a PostScript clone that
Qume developed.  It has a liquid crystal shutter mechanism.  They were
demonstrating that it printed the same page as an Apple Laserwriter NT
in about a third the time.  Print quality was damn near identical to
the NT, without the banding the NT produced when printing large black
areas.  Physically, the Qume is about the same height and about two
thirds as long as the NT.

Personally, I would want some more assurance about the compatibility
of their PostScript-like language with the Real Thing(TM) from Adobe
before I'd consider buying one of these.  If all the usual suspects
work correctly with the Qume then it would be an awfully attractive
alternative to offerings from Apple/QMS/etc.



-- 
Hank Shiffman                                     (415) 336-4658
AI Product Marketing Technical Specialist       ...!sun!shiffman
Sun Microsystems, Inc.                          shiffman@Sun.com

Zippy sez:
  An INK-LING?  Sure -- TAKE one!!  Did you BUY any COMMUNIST UNIFORMS??