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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: <1990Feb12.190933.16222@zardoz.cpd.com>
Date: 12 Feb 90 19:09:33 GMT
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In article <268@dg.dg.com> uunet!dg!mpogue (Mike Pogue) 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.
>Actually, I'd be interested in the same thing.  With a simple SCSI -> parallel
>interface converter, I would think the speed would be slow.

What kind of Centronics interfaces are you people used to 8-) ?
Again, our LOW performance model goes past 30K bytes/second, and our
high performance model goes to 250K bytes/second.

Also, as long as there is a noticable price difference between
postscript and non-postscript laser printers because of the processing
involved in postscript-to-output-bits conversions, and as long as
there are double digit MIPS desktop workstations for a cheap price
that are underutilized, it makes sense to install a postscript to
bits-format-such-as-HP-Laser-Jet-format filter and a non-postscript
laser printer and use our cheap SCSI/parallel interface.

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