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From: neil@uninet.cpd.com (Neil Gorsuch)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs,comp.periphs.printers,comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: looking for OEM supplier of Laser Printer w/ SCSI interface
Keywords: Laser SCSI
Message-ID: <1990Feb12.043016.21137@zardoz.cpd.com>
Date: 12 Feb 90 04:30:16 GMT
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In article <27446@ppgbms.UUCP> paul@ppgbms.UUCP (Paul Evan Matz) writes:
>In article <1990Feb8.213511.23705@zardoz.cpd.com> neil@uninet.cpd.com (Neil Gorsuch) writes:
>>Why not use our SCSI to serial/parallel interface and pick whichever
>>laser printer that you want?  The interface is cheap, and that way,
>>you can be very cost effective in your choice of laser printers.
>
>The main reason for interest in SCSI is for its speed.  If you want to print
>full page raster images, if you use a centronics interface, you can count on 
>a transfer rate of about 5K bytes/second, or about 3 minutes per page.  (This
>is 8 by 10.5 inches at 300 dpi).  If you try this with a serial connection,
>well, let's not talk about it.

You must be looking at crummy centronics interfaces 8-).  Our LOW
performance model goes past 30K bytes/second on it's parallel port
(takes 30 seconds per page to transfer).  Our high performance model
goes to the full Centronics spec of 250K bytes/second (4 seconds per
page).  How much speed do you want 8-) ?  And for that matter, our
serial ports will also do much better than 5K bytes per second, since
they do arbitrary baud rates to much faster than 100K baud, but we
haven't found many serial devices yet that can handle it 8-).

The money you will save in being able to choose almost any laser
printer will probably be far more than whatever you pay for our
interface.  And why be locked into a few laser printers when you can
choose from almost all of them?

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