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From: sakkinen@tukki.jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Fast Postscript Printers
Keywords: Fast Postscript Printers
Message-ID: <2500@tukki.jyu.fi>
Date: 19 Dec 89 13:13:02 GMT
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Reply-To: sakkinen@jytko.jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen)
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Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
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In article <374@timer1.UUCP> fritz@timer1.UUCP (fritz) writes:
>I am interested in fast postscript printer.  Fast meaning 8 or 
>better Pages Per Minute as well as a fast processor. [...]

Our 2-year old Qume ScripTen (TM) has a nominal speed of 10 ppm,
and with relatively simple and straightforward text documents
that can even be the throughput speed. It's got a MC 68010 processor
(I think, but cannot find any mention in the manuals) and 3 MB of
memory. In many cases, it can be essentially faster than printers
with a 68020 processor but only 2 MB or less of memory; but that
depends very much on the documents.

The fonts on the ScripTen are appreciably thicker than on Apple (R)
and QMS (TM) printers. (On the other hand, it has a larger character
set than many newer PostScript printers here at the university.
It may be that Apple and QMS have caught up by now.)
We have also had some trouble with overheating
and toner smudging. But check the current models.

Markku Sakkinen
Department of Computer Science
University of Jyvaskyla (a's with umlauts)
Seminaarinkatu 15
SF-40100 Jyvaskyla (umlauts again)
Finland