BILL@CS.COLUMBIA.EDU (Bill Schilit) (11/22/85)
Has anyone seen, or does anyone have an LNZ-2660? This is a PostScript printer made by Dataproducts, and mentioned a while back on this list. Does anyone know if the 10MHZ clock cycle of the LNZ 68000 vs. the LaserWriter's 12MHZ cycle makes a difference? Or the effect of 2MB RAM on the LNZ vs the 1.5MB on the LaserWriter? A number of companies are OEM'ing the Dataproducts machine under a different name -- like Apollo computer's Domain/Laser-26 -- has anyone seen any of these? At $20,900 the LNZ-2660 is about equal to 4.5 LaserWriters. It is only 3 times as fast (max speed is said to be 26 pgs/min) but has a duty cycle 10 times the LaserWriter (LNZ rated at 40-50K pages/month the LaserWriter at 4K). The capacity (duty cycle) of the machine seems to be a major buying reason. Can anyone think of other reasons -- or perhaps why a handful of LaserWriters would be preferable? The Dataproducts LNZ-2660 was scheduled for production deliveries in November when I sent away for information last September. Now deliveries are scheduled for January, but the people I talked to said OEM shipments are going out and there are a few evaluation models available. As far as I can tell Dataproduct's LNZ machine (and OEM versions) are the only PostScript printers near delivery, or being delivered, aside from the Apple LaserWriter... - Bill -------