Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!mcsun!sunic!nuug!ulrik!ulrik!blarsen From: blarsen@ulrik.uio.no (Bjorn Larsen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: DECs PrintServer 20 Message-ID: Date: 26 Dec 89 19:17:41 GMT References: <450@euteal.ele.tue.nl> Sender: blarsen@ulrik.uio.no (Bj|rn Larsen) Organization: USE, University of Oslo, Norway Lines: 58 In-Reply-To: jos@ele.tue.nl's message of 22 Dec 89 13:24:35 GMT In article <450@euteal.ele.tue.nl> jos@ele.tue.nl (Jos van Eijndhoven) writes: > > Recently I obtained a document from DECs direct > mailing, presenting their Printserver 20. > Since we were looking for a more powerful postscript > printer, it arrived just in time. > The printer had abilities we were looking for such > as double side printing, and printing on larger sheets. > But most important, the presented print quality > was excellent! I am sitting here with a document that on it's first page has the heading INSTEAD OF A DOCUMENT ABOUT THE NEW PrintServer 20, A DOCUMENT PRODUCED ON THE NEW PrintServer 20 I assume that it is the same as the one you have got. > Now there is something weird with this print quality. > The document states that it is 'WYSIWYG': it is > actual printer output, on normal paper. > Regarding its quality, this should mean that the printer > has a resolution of -I guess- at least 600 dpi. > However the document claims somewhere else a > resolution of 300dpi: common for laserprinters, > but definitely not of this document. If your copy looks like it has been printed on a 600 dpi printer, then it can't be the same as the one I have. Mine looks like it has been printed on a Digital 300 dpi printer. I get the same print quality from our LN03Rs and PrintServer 40. > So either this technical specification is wrong, > or they try to fool me by pretending it is actual > printer output when this is not the case. > THIS WOULD BE VERY BAD, BE WARNED. The PrintServer 20 is a 300dpi device. Like Digital's other laserprinters, it prints rather black, giving a more solid image than that of a LaserWriter, for example. If you don't believe your own eyes, why not arrange for Digital to create a PrintServer test printing from one of your own documents? Get your facts right first. Spare your capital letters for later. -- Bjorn Larsen bl@nac.no USE, University of Oslo, Norway ...!mcvax!nac!bl Bjorn.Larsen@use.uio.no