U02F@CBEBDA3T.BITNET (Franklin A. Davis) (11/27/85)
We're looking for a laser printer for general use in the Informatics (CS) department, and we don't know enough to make a good decision. One person advised us that the Apple Laserwriter was the best choice because Script is a great language that is already being adapted by typesetting systems as a standard and is 'almost sure to become the standard'. The same person said the ISO standard was 'stillborn', and not usefull (e.g. on the Cannon). Another person gave us the opposite opinion-- that Apple is unstable these days so no one is committing to Script, and that furthermore there are so many languages that every machine will have to have drivers for most graphics languages/protocols. We have an Ethernet-type lan, with mostly IBM PCs, a Prime, PDP/11, connections to IBM mainframe, a Mac, a CPT dedicated wordprocessor. If you or your department is using or has researched current laserprinters (under $10K) could you please send my your opinions, conclusions, recommendations, and warnings? If I receive sufficient response I'll summarize to Info-Graphics. Oh, one unfortunate request: our budget is frozen THIS WEEK and so we need to decide *pronto*. So please hurry off a quick response, anything!! Thanks, Franklin Davis <U02F@CBEBDA3T.BITNET> Institut fuer Informatik und angewandte Mathematik Universitaet Bern Laenggassstrasse 51 CH-3012 Bern Switzerland [[Editor's note: A summary to laser-lovers is more appropriate than an info-graphics one since you submitted your message to laser-lovers. ---Rick ]]