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Re: color laser with old cubes?

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From: Todd M. Swan
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 15:47
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In article <53701@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt1111a@prism.gatech.EDU (Vincent Fox)  
writes:
> We have about 9 old-style '030 cubes with 380 meg HD's and an MO disk each.
> 
> I am very interested in the new color PostScript printer, but a couple of
> obvious questions arise. I have been told that NeXTStep 3.0 extended will
> be required to use the new printer. Will my old cubes:
> 
> 1) Be able to hold all of 3.0 extended and still have some room left
>    over for a fair amount of swap?
> 2) Be connectable to the new CD-ROM drive for purpose of loading 3.0 ext?
> 3) Print color transparencies of reasonable quality?
> 
> I am assuming of course that someone out there in net.land has managed to
> snag one of these way ahead of the rest of us.

Yes on all counts.  But the new NeXT color printer isn't a laser printer nor is  
it Postscript.  It's a bubble-jet printer and the Postscript is built into the  
NeXT itself.   The 400dpi isn't a Postscript printer either.  All the printer  
process is bitmaps.
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