laser-lovers@uw-beaver (09/12/85)
From: Terry Domae <tdomae%NRTC@USC-ECL.arpa>
Yesterday I got some information about PCTeX and in it was a Laser printer
that supported TeX (with TeX software and interface cards) for about
$3,400.00. What I would like to know is:
o Does anybody have any more information on it?
o Is this laser printer REAL?
o Who is Corona? (maybe the Corona PC people)
Any and all information regarding this ?new? laser-printer would
be appreciated (Electronic Mail Please)!
Terry Domae
Northrop Research and Technology Center
One Research Park
Palos Verdes Penninsula, Ca. 90274
Arpa: TDomae%Nrtc@Usc-Ecl
Uucp: ...{ucivax,trwrb}!nrtc!domae
[[Editor's note: I believe the Corona Laser Printer has been around
for a while but very little has been said about it on this list. How
about it, anyone out there have one and want to comment? --Rick]]laser-lovers@uw-beaver (09/12/85)
From: Paul Graham <unr70!unrvax!pjg@seismo.CSS.GOV> We saw the corona printer at the TUG meeting, in august, connected to Lance Carnes' PC. It was running with a preliminary controller. It's real and that's the right price but it *needs* to be attached to a PC. Corona would probably prefer it be one of theirs but that's not necessary. The printer accepts video which comes off the controller. -- Paul Graham 702/784-6007 University of Nevada Reno ucbvax!decvax!seismo!unr70!unrvax!pjg unr70!unrvax!pjg@seismo[.CSS.GOV|.ARPA]
laser-lovers@uw-beaver (09/12/85)
From: phr%ucbernie@Berkeley (Paul Rubin) The Corona Laser Printer has been around for at least a year. It is an LBP-CX based printer with not very many features and not much software. What's interesting about it is that its interface is a card that plugs into an IBM PC backplane and transfers rasters at memory speeds, so you can print full page bitmaps or anything else that your PC can generate. I don't know of any other printers that aren't a lot more expensive tha can do this at reasonable speed. Yes, Corona are the Corona PC people. I heard that Lance Carnes was working on a version of Personal TeX that ran on a PC and drove this printer directly. I don't know what is going on with that these days. I would recommend contacting his company (in Mill Valley, CA, I think) but I don't know the address. He advertises in TUGBoat or you could try 415 directory assistance. Disclaimer: I don't have anything to do with any of the above organizations. Hope this helps paul rubin [[Editor's note: Lance's company is Personal TeX, Inc., at (415)388-8853. Out of fairness, I ought to ask someone who attended TUG to summarize the manufacturer's displays so we can hear about the competing products as well. Anyone want to take this on? --Rick ]]