joe@amie.UUCP (Joe Hitchens) (07/16/88)
I am considering purchasing a Laser Printer for my A1000 and would
like to hear from anyone else here who has a Laser Printer on
their Amiga so I can make an intelligent decision.
What I am specifically interested in is ...
- What Inexpensive LP's are available? (LaserWriter, etc.)
- Which Amiga port do they use? (parrallel, serial, etc.)
- Is there already a printer driver available for it?
Any help is very much appreciated and I will summarize for everyone
if I get any responses.
Thanks,
j.h.
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============================================================================kgeisel@nfsun.UUCP (kurt geisel) (07/26/88)
C-Ltd. has announced a 300 DPI Amiga Laser Printer. It is SCSI-based and will supposedly print faster in a network than a Laser Writer, because it does page building on the Amiga. An article in the July 1988 Computer Shopper magazine listed it at $2500. If they gave a release date, I don't remember it. I don't think they did. Since the printer is made for the Amiga, there should be a good printer driver for it. However, it is expensive, and you will need an SCSI card. C-Ltd also announced a 300 DPI page scanner for $1500, and an "under $600" 9600 baud modem/fax. It looks like the Amiga just might become an attractive business machine yet. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Kurt Geisel, Intelligent Technology Group, Inc. | | Bix: kgeisel | | ARPA: kgeisel%nfsun@uunet.uu.net US Snail: | | UUCP: uunet!nfsun!kgeisel 65 Lambeth Dr. | | Pittsburgh, PA 15241 | | If a rule fires and no one sees it, did it really fire? | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
dave@dms3b1.UUCP (Dave Hanna) (07/28/88)
In article <280@nfsun.UUCP> kgeisel@nfsun.UUCP (kurt geisel) writes: >C-Ltd. has announced a 300 DPI Amiga Laser Printer. It is SCSI-based and will [ ... ] >driver for it. However, it is expensive, and you will need an SCSI card. ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Does that have to be C-Ltd's controller card? On the same subject, now that the Amiga Hard Drive market is starting to mature a little, what is the general concensus on the C-Ltd SCSI controller as compared to others available? They seem to be more or less the first, or at least the first of those that are still around and well-known. I think I'll probably be getting a drive soon, and if their card is going to be required for this printer, then I may as well get theirs. But I do want to make sure their haven't been a rash of negative experiences with it. (BTW, this will be for an A2000). > >| Kurt Geisel, Intelligent Technology Group, Inc. | -- Dave Hanna, Daltech MicroSystems | "Do or do not -- There is no try" P.O. Box 584, Bedford, TX 76095 | - Yoda (214) 358-4534 (817) 540-1524 | UUCP: ...!killer!gtmvax!dave |
louie@trantor.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) (07/28/88)
In article <280@nfsun.UUCP> kgeisel@nfsun.UUCP (kurt geisel) writes: >C-Ltd. has announced a 300 DPI Amiga Laser Printer. It is SCSI-based and will >supposedly print faster in a network than a Laser Writer, because it does >page building on the Amiga. An article in the July 1988 Computer Shopper >magazine listed it at $2500. This price is't signifantly cheaper than a PostScript page printer. Why would I want to use the processor in the Amiga to do "page building" when I can off-load that computational task to the processor in the printer? One of the large reasons that printing in a "network" is slow, is because networks are slow (read: Appletalk). I've got my PostScript printer on a Parallel port, and it goes plenty fast for me. It also does HP laserjet+ emulation for stuff that want to use that (like the Amiga printer drivers, etc). Also note, that at least for the old A1000 SCSI host adaptor, the C Ltd SCSI interface doesn't do DMA. Hard to see where this might be faster than a parallel port. Louis A. Mamakos WA3YMH Internet: louie@TRANTOR.UMD.EDU University of Maryland, Computer Science Center - Systems Programming