tgoldin@amherst.bitnet (02/13/90)
I am considering buying a laser printer. Has anyone had experience with either the QMS PS-820 or the NEC LC-890? I am looking for info as to reliability, speed, print quality, etc. Any help along these lines would be much appreciated.
clay@uci.mn.org (Clayton Haapala) (02/20/90)
In article <9111.25d70533@amherst.bitnet> tgoldin@amherst.bitnet writes: >I am considering buying a laser printer. Has anyone had experience with either >the QMS PS-820 or the NEC LC-890? I am looking for info as to reliability, >speed, print quality, etc. Any help along these lines would be much >appreciated. We are (ab)using a NEC LC-890 here at UCI for Postscript work. We run a phenomenal number of documents through it. (We're in the 50K+ range.) We have had some problems with the printer on a Novell network, and had to contact Novell support. The answer back (purportedly from NEC), was that the printer was not meant for network use. Oh well, eh? We run in with the parallel port and with Appletalk. The RS232 port has proved unreliable, as the printer didn't handshake correctly (would go off-line permanently). Other subsitute NEC printers we have gotten while this NEC was sick had problems, too, like not being consistent on the length of parallel cable we could run. The following problem may be typical of all postscript printers: when sent arbitrary non-postscript text (like a banner page), the printer will go "on-line processing" for a long time, then flicker OFF to ON, then eventually silently die and refuse to process any print jobs. The print quality is better than our HP LaserJet, but then, for $3000 more bucks I would HOPE so. Our NEC has also demonstrated that it is quite sensitive to low humidity and direct sunlight. It is also a drag to clean. -- Clayton Haapala ...!bungia!uci!clay (clay@uci.uci.com) Unified Communications Inc. "We have ways of making you scream." 3001 Metro Drive - Suite 500 -- Intel PLM Manual Appendicies on mixed-model Bloomington, MN 55425 programming and interface to assembly-language
alexande@drivax.UUCP (Mark Alexander) (02/27/90)
In article <9111.25d70533@amherst.bitnet> tgoldin@amherst.bitnet writes: >I am considering buying a laser printer. Has anyone had experience with either >the QMS PS-820 or the NEC LC-890? I am looking for info as to reliability, >speed, print quality, etc. Any help along these lines would be much >appreciated. We use a QMS PS-810. It's similar to the 820 but uses a slower processor. It's been very reliable, print quality is good, it's reasonably fast, and customer service is outstanding. There was a problem with one of the ROMs on the PostScript board after a couple of months, but QMS technical support people were very helpful and the problem was fixed promptly. -- Mark Alexander (amdahl!drivax!alexande)