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Article #2252Re: Need recommendations for 17ppm Postscript printer (besides QMS PS1700)
From: Greg Pavlov
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 09:20
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 09:20
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In article <1993Jan27.205350.27537@ncar.ucar.edu>, fredrick@acd.ucar.edu (Timothy Fredrick) writes: > We are almost at wits end with QMS and our recently-purchased QMS PS 1700. > On two different interfaces it will occasionally stop printing a page and > start printing bit-patterns. This is even with the input-stream sensing > feature turned off. QMS's technical support will take messages ad-infinitum, > but nobody will ever get back to you. And the fax-line for help yields > the same result. We didn't have this problem with a demo unit that QMS > brought to our organization last summer. > We, and others we know, had problems similar to the above with QMS printers 4-5 years ago to the extent that we (and others) decided not to buy any more QMS printers. We ended up throwing one away, because it failed and neither QMS (we shipped it to them) nor anyone else could fix it: QMS claimed that it did, and charged us a good chunk of money for the exercise, but it didn't do anything for the printer. Given the number of people who have recommended QMS here since then, I thought that the company had changed. Maybe not. greg pavlov pavlov@fstrf.org
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ukma!cs.widener.edu!dsinc!ub!niktow!pavlov From: pavlov@niktow.canisius.edu (Greg Pavlov) Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers Subject: Re: Need recommendations for 17ppm Postscript printer (besides QMS PS1700) Message-ID: <1994@niktow.canisius.edu> Date: 28 Jan 93 09:20:29 GMT References: <1993Jan27.205350.27537@ncar.ucar.edu> Organization: Canisius College, Buffalo NY. 14208 Lines: 21