laser-lovers@uw-beaver (12/26/83)
From ihnp4!physics!lax Sun Dec 25 16:53:07 1983 To: ihnp4!uw-beaver!laser-lovers ReSent-date: Sun 25 Dec 83 16:40:34-PST ReSent-from: Richard Furuta <Furuta@WASHINGTON.ARPA> ReSent-to: "Laser Lovers": ; Does anyone have any information about the relative merits and reliability of the Laser Graphics and Imagen printers for graphics and for "typeset" output.
laser-lovers@uw-beaver (laser-lovers) (09/23/84)
From: Richard Furuta <Furuta@WASHINGTON.ARPA>
This item from info-mac. The PostScript description is in the public
domain and copies of its description may be purchased from Adobe. I
believe the cost is $35. It seems like recommended reading to me.
Unfortunately I don't have Adobe's address right here---if someone on
the list has it, please mail it to laser-lovers; otherwise I'll send
it out on Monday.
As far as the feeling that the printer cannot be produced to sell for
less than $8000---note that the HP LaserJet using the same print
engine retails for around $3500 (admittedly the controller is less
capable). The rumored price for this printer (in earlier messages to
laser-lovers) has been about $7000.
--Rick
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From: Wang Zeep <G.ZEEP%MIT-EECS@MIT-MC.ARPA>
Subject: Laser Printers
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ReSent-From: Ed Pattermann <PATTERMANN@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA>
ReSent-To: info-mac: ;
1) Rumor from a friend in the business of designing laser printers has
Apple using the Post Script protocol from Adobe systems to specify their
page layouts. This is important because
a) Microsoft and QMS both will support the same protocol.
b) Mergenthaler Linotype signed with Adobe to provide high-
quality digitized fonts for the PostScript protocol.
2) He also says that it will be massively intelligent and will include
a 12 Mhz 68000 and 2 megabytes of 256Kbit RAMs. He cannont see how
it will come out for less than $8000. (QMS's version of the Canon
is said to be similar and costs $10000).
3) One possibility if this is all true is that Apple may be able to sell IBM
compatible laser printers, as Microsoft will surely bring out a PostScript
compatible version of Word.
wz
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