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I have seen a few ads from companies that are selling high-resolution laser 
printers.

I have also seen an article in a Mac magazine which claims that the lower-end 
800 and 1200 dpi laser printers are actually all based on 600 dpi engines 
which have been modified. They are thus much less capable of doing thei 
claimed higher resolution in one direction than the other (I think that it is 
relatively easy to improve the resolution across the page, but harder to do so 
down the page).

The printers that I have read about, with prices in _Australian Dollars_ are

QMS 860 plus: 600 x 1200 dpi, A3 & A4, 24 MB RAM, Dual paper feed
				$A7950 ex tax

Dataproducts 1580: 800 dpi, 15 pages per minute, A3 and A4 printing, 
8 MB RAM			$A5995 ex tax

GCC Selectpress 600: 600 dpi, 40 MB internal hard disk, 8MB RAM,
8 pages per min, A3 and A4		$A6750 ex tax

GCC Selectpress 1200: 1200 dpi, 24 MB RAM, 8ppm, 160 MB hard disk
				$A12950 ex tax

Apple Laserwriter Select 810: 800 dpi, 8 MB RAM, A4, 12 ppm, built-in ethernet
				around $A8,000 ex tax

Primera Dye Sublimation colour printer: thermal wax & dye 
sublimation colour printer, A4, ??? dpi,	(cost per page is in
the range of a few dollars)		$A2550 ex tax

QMS Colorscript 1000 colour laser printer: 300 dpi, 12 MB RAM,
internal 40 MB hard disk, 8ppm in monochrome; 2ppm full colour
				around $A18,000 ex tax

Most of these prices are quoted from an ad. by a company called 'Designwyse' 
in Melbourne (+61-3-706 8858).

Does anyone have any other printers that I should look out for, or 
advice or recommendations that they would like to make?

Phil Ryan
Melbourne, Australia

ryanpf@ssmd.mrl.dsto.gov.au