laser-lovers@uw-beaver (laser-lovers) (08/15/84)
From: "Richard D. Romanelli" <romanell@BRL-AOS.ARPA> Has anyone had problems in getting prices on printers from Imagen? Our procurement division has reported that Imagen has been extremely lax in sending prices and other necessary information. We feel that if it is difficult to get pricing information it will be even more difficult to get delivery and service. If anyone has information on Imagen's service call and replacement parts records please send it to: romanell@brl Thanks. Rich Romanelli
laser-lovers@uw-beaver (laser-lovers) (08/17/84)
From: Richard Furuta <Furuta@washington.arpa> As luck would have it, I ran into Dan Curtis of Imagen about 1/2 hour after reading the note asking for information about Imagen's current state. He tells me that things are a little disordered at Imagen right now as they recently moved from Palo Alto to Santa Clara. Apparently their net mail service has also been disrupted for the past few weeks. He suggests that if you have problems with Imagen that you call him directly. Imagen's number is now (408) 986-9400. Dan's in Customer Service, I think, rather than marketing and has been very helpful to me in the past. The reason I ran into Dan is that I am in Palo Alto for the TeX Users Group meeting (rather than my normal Seattle location). Imagen is demoing two printers here. One is their 8/300 using the Canon CX print engine. The other is "not a product". It's based on a Ricoh 300dpi print engine which runs at 12 pages/minute. If it were a product, they tell me that the expected cost would be around $20,000. Also demoing stuff here is QMS and Talaris---both showing the QMS 800 (also based on the Canon CX engine). Rumors publically announced at the meeting by David Fuchs of TeX fame: An unnamed company expects to put out a laser printer "appliance" with bit-mapped capability based on the CX for about $7000. --Rick -------
laser-lovers@uw-beaver (laser-lovers) (08/20/84)
From: David Fuchs <DRF@SU-SCORE.ARPA> Well, actually, the facts are all public: Steve Jobs has been quoted in the San Jose Mercury News to the effect that Apple will be selling an "insanely great" laser printer by the end of the year. That was some time ago, but I just bumped into a "Apple certified developer" who was in town to attend a new-product-description-session given by Apple for big software houses about the printer. So, it must be getting close. Not wanting anyone to think I'm giving away secrets, -david -------