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woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal) writes:


>Don Lancaster is currently doing this. He welcomes calls, and prints his
>phone number in the Computer Shopper.  602-428-4073.
>Don is a well known author, and has really been working rather diligently
>on "book on demand" printing.  I think that the last time I talked to him,
>he said that he had an Apple talking to a disk over SCSI, that was also 
>chained to the Laser.  He has certainly saved stuff to the hard disk, and can
>dump it into the interpreter.  I think that the time is soon coming when
>you can daisy chain the laser to a  SCSI port on a computer, and freely
>access the hdisk, from either the laser or the computer.  There are a few
>bugs to be worked out, but it looks like it might be doable.
>Cheers
>Woody

The day of the SCSI printer is TODAY!    NCR demonstrated their 
6436 SCSI printer at both Spring/COMDEX '90 and PC/Expo.  The printer
is available in either single ended or differential SCSI models and 
(depending on model) have a serial or parallel port, too.   The 
show demonstration was to print a PageMaker page from a PC.  
Carriage return to page in hand time was about 20 seconds.   This
included the 13 seconds for the engine to go off idle and move the 
paper thru.   Page size was 630K!

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Harry Burford - NCR Peripheral Products Division, Printer Products 
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