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From: perley@trub.steinmetz (Donald P Perley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: laser printers for Amiga?
Keywords: printers, laser
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Date: 10 Feb 89 13:35:08 GMT
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In article <11775@gryphon.COM> richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>In article <1742@tank.uchicago.edu> arxt@tank.uchicago.edu (patrick  palmer) writes:

>>3. How important is Postscript for an Amiga user? 
>
>It'll change your life.


>And of course it'll do things an HP just cant do, like wrap circular
>text around a cube.
>
>Or, in another vein, Paul Heckbert wrote a ray tracer in PostScript
>because he couldnt stand to see such resources go idle.
>
>The drawback is the cost. The cheapest PS printer is the NEC LC-890
>for $3k. COme with 35 fonts though, and at $100 per for the equiv.
>HP fonts you actually come out ahead, I suppose.


Adds are starting to appear for postscript interpreters that can drive
dumb laser printers.  For what a postscript printer costs you could
get a laserjet, spend a few hundred more on the software, and still have
enough to buy an extra amiga just to drive the printer.

If you are doing low volume, skip the extra amiga and get a bubble jet
instead of the laser printer.. the total then might be around $1000.
PLUS... Then you can print on up to 14 inch wide paper..
How much would THAT cost on a dedicated postscript laser printer?


Disclaimers:

I haven't actually seen one of these interpreters, and don't even know
what it costs (just guessing at a couple hundred).  What I know of them
comes from network gossip a few months back and an add in the back of
the current Amiga World.

-don perley