laser-lovers@uw-beaver (03/19/85)
From: Richard Furuta <Furuta@WASHINGTON.ARPA> [[Editor's note: A reader has commented that the discussion on the Dover's speed is of interest to only a small subset of the list and that the subject now has been covered adequately. I agree, and will hold future messages relating to this subject. [[This is not meant to cut off discussion on the other issues raised in the Dover-related messages, such as those discussing the history related to the development. I find the recent descriptions of the history of the development of laser printers to be interesting and of importance and will continue to forward those messages. --Rick]] Date: 19 Mar 85 10:58 PST From: Orr.pa@xerox.arpa Subject: Re: Dover speed In-Reply-To: Brian Reid <reid@SU-GLACIER.ARPA>'s message of 18 Mar 85 15:27 PST (Monday) That's not fair, Brian: the fact that your machine is accessible to people with stopwatches is utterly irrelevant to its characteristics as a printer or its comparability to a LaserWriter. The comments I have seen from others at Xerox are not stating that our Dovers are faster but that the Dover's speed advantage shows in printing multiple copies of a document. Your administration chooses to deny you that, producing a situation in which you most probably will be far better served by multiple LaserWriters, but this is a policy decision which has little to do with the relative potentials of the different machines. A Dover's best use is not the same as a LaserWriter, but if you don't use it that way, most of its advantage will, indeed, disappear. ~Julian~ Date: 19 Mar 1985 1209-PST (Tuesday) From: Brian Reid <reid@su-glacier.arpa> Subject: Re: Dover speed In-Reply-To: Msg from Orr.pa@XEROX.ARPA dated 19 Mar 85 10:58 PST. I am mostly replying to DonWinter.ES, who claimed that "Stanford must be running an older version of the Dover system" since he had "never noticed that kind of delays." I believe that I have said enough positive things about the Dover that nobody, not even a Xerox employee, could accuse me of an anti-Xerox bias with respect to the Dover. I just wanted to make sure people knew that the Dover I was talking about and the Dover that DonWinter.ES was talking about were in fact the same machine. -------