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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.


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Bjorn Larsen                       bl@nac.no
USE, University of Oslo, Norway    ...!mcvax!nac!bl
                                   Bjorn.Larsen@use.uio.no