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Article #44188Re: Mac Printers 600dpi
From: Michael Tod Rose
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1989 17:33
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1989 17:33
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tried to mail this, but no dice... Tom- We're currently using a Varityper VT600 to publish a weekly broadsheet college newspaper and we have very few complaints. The printer is fairly reliable and produces good quality copy. We're working on the halftone quality -- it's not quite there yet, but soon... One caveat -- they don't call it a "plain-paper imagesetter" for nothing. This machine is *not* a LaserWriter; it's incredibly massive, needs a fairly clean room and high-quality paper, and dislikes heavy workloads (optimum: page counts under 100/day and 500/week, needs servicing every 3000 pages). Price: $23,000. Advice: If you can afford it, it's a good machine. If it seems a bit expensive, wait ~6 months and there'll be new products. (maybe even one from Apple...nah.) -Michael T. Rose Managing Editor -- The Tartan 1989 Newspaper Pacemaker of the Associated Collegiate Press
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!mr2t+ From: mr2t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Tod Rose) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Mac Printers 600dpi Message-ID: <YZXb3YK00WBKI1PUw2@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: 19 Dec 89 17:33:24 GMT Organization: Class of '91, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 23