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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
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Subject: Re: laser printers for Amiga?
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Date: 10 Feb 89 02:54:31 GMT
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In article <6005@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> (Robert M. Wolff) writes:
> Well, I just spoke to CLtd today, and their Laser-X-Press (casiopia
> project) is going to be adding a postscript 'device'. It INTERPRETS
> a postscript source, turns it into a virtual page, and then may be
> edited, clipped from, etc...then can be sent out to the laser printer
> in 8 seconds!!!

Be careful how you say that, to be perfectly honest you have to make
sure that you clearly separate the "8 seconds!!!" from the "INTERPRETS
a postscript source". The interpret step may take several minutes. 
Dumping a megabyte of ram to the printer is only limited by the paper
speed across the drum. (At 8 ppm that's 7.5 seconds). 

>Laser-X-Press is RETAIL $2500...not bad...also, Pagestream will print
>directly to the virtual page in memory, Pro-page, city desk (newest ver),
>and many others will be supporting the virtual page libraries...
>Gonna be REALLY nice...

$2500 ? When retail HP LaserJet II's run under $2000 and can run on a
512K system? They might make the same goof Atari did in thinking that
You don't mind paying $2500 for the printer and $1500 for the 2 meg 
ram expansion. 


--Chuck McManis
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