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Article #793Re: color laser with old cubes?
From: Todd M. Swan
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 15:47
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. -- ! "Finally, some good ! Todd M. Swan (ADP-2 - MS P910)! ! software for a PC." ! tms@lanl.gov (NeXTMail) ! ! -- Steve Jobs on ! Los Alamos National Laboratory! ! NeXTstep '486 ! Los Alamos, NM 87545 !
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!hellgate.utah.edu!lanl!news From: tms@twins.lanl.gov (Todd M. Swan) Subject: Re: color laser with old cubes? Message-ID: <1992Apr7.154755.720@newshost.lanl.gov> Sender: news@newshost.lanl.gov Reply-To: tms@twins.lanl.gov Organization: Los Alamos National Lab References: <53701@hydra.gatech.EDU> Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 15:47:55 GMT