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Submission for mod-computers-laser-printers

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Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1987 19:55
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From: randolph%cognito@Sun.COM (Randolph)
Newsgroups: mod.computers.laser-printers
Subject: Summary: PostScript and Sun Printers
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Some moons ago, I posted a request for medium-capacity printers which 
were Sun-compatable or supported PostScript.  Here's the summary of responses.

Grant Van Dyck (cvbnet!gvandyck) sent the following list.

ENGINE		Vendor		Model		PPM 	Engine life

Ricoh		T.I.		2115		15	1.5 Meg. pages
      		Facit		Opus 3		15	""

Toshiba		DataProducts	1275		15	1.5 Meg. pages
       		""          	2665		26	3 Meg. pages

Fujitsu		Fujitsu		M3722		18	1.5 M Pages

S.page (spage@sun) listed Texas Instruments, Diconix, Wang, Apollo, 
QMS, DataProducts, Linotype, and DEC.

Geof (imagen!apolling!geof) suggested Imagen, which sells a line of 
printers which use Impress, their own printer control language.  The 
line includes a high-speed printer which can print two-sided 11x17 
signatures.

Glenn Reid (greid@adobe.uucp) suggested I call Adobe customer support 
(415-852-0271) and ask to be sent a list of all PostScript printers
currently available.  S.page also suggested calling Adobe.

Rich Burridge (richb%yarra.oz@seismo.css.gov, seismo!munnari!yarra.oz!richb)
sent the following list of Dataproducts printer features

 - Full resolution text/graphics on a single page.
 - Full bit-map memory - no page too complex to print.
 - High speed - upto 26 pages per minute.
 - High print quality - partial pixel shadowing.
 - High print resolution - 300 dots per inch.
 - Domestic and European cutsheet paper sizes up to 11" x 17"
 - Straight through paper path for reliable performance.
 - 2660 supports images upto legal size.
 - 2665 supports images upto ledger size /A3.

Bill Shannon (bshannon@sun) and some unknown person at rd@lri.uucp also 
suggested Dataproducts.

Randolph Fritz
sun!rfritz
rfritz@sun.com
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