rtb@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Todd) (01/11/88)
I was in my local computer store on Saturday and I saw an Atari laser printer hooked up to a Mega ST. The salesman showed me some Publishing Partner flyers that he printed out and they looked really good. No "jaggies" on the larger letters like you sometimes get on HP laserjet printers. The printer comes with several disks that have a lot of fonts. All fonts for this printer are software loadable (which means they should be cheap compared to font cartridges). At the last minute Atari switched to the Cannon engine, eliminating a lot of the problems associated with the liquid toner of the ricoh engine. There is an additional box that goes between the printer and the computer which might be used to chain the DMA port, this box was small enough to sit nicely on top of the SM204 hard disk. The retail price of the printer is $1995 but I think I could get it for $1600 from this particular dealer. One of the emulations this printer can do is Diablo 630 making it compatible with any word processor that can talk to a Diablo 630. As most of us know by now the laser printer uses the computers memory instead of its own. An advantage of the printer using the computers memory is speed. I did not test the printer in depth enough to determine how fast or slow it was. We talked about about the wisdom of buying a printer that can only be use on one computer. Like anything else there are advantages and disadvantages. Normally, the biggest advantage would be support. Unfortunately, looking at Atari's past track record my biggest fear would be that some bug would be discovered that would make the printer a nuisance to use and we would be waiting two years or more for a fix. This fear is compounded by the fact that my SM204 seems to be a victim of ATDI's (or whatever that hard disk utility is) inability to properly mark bad sectors. I bought the SM204 because I thought it would be the most compatible and have the least problems and I am finding out the opposite is true. I decided to take a wait and see attitude before I buy this printer. If I feel I will get the support I need I will probably buy one. R. T. Bradstrum
neil@atari.UUCP (Neil Harris) (01/13/88)
In article <3322@ihlpf.ATT.COM>, rtb@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Todd) writes: > At the last minute Atari switched to the Cannon engine, eliminating a lot > of the problems associated with the liquid toner of the ricoh engine. Well... that's not true. We *never* planned to use the Ricoh engine, which I I believe runs at 6 pages per minute. Nor do we use the Canon engine now. The actual engine being used is the TEC, which is 8 pages per minute, writes white (which gives nice solid blacks), and which should be cheaper to operate. -- --->Neil Harris, Director of Marketing Communications, Atari Corporation UUCP: ...{hoptoad, lll-lcc, pyramid, imagen, sun}!atari!neil GEnie: NHARRIS/ WELL: neil / BIX: neilharris / Delphi: NEILHARRIS CIS: 70007,1135 / Atari BBS 408-745-5308 / Usually the OFFICIAL Atari opinion
michaela@iscuve.isc-br.com (Michael Albo) (02/05/90)
I was wondering if anyone knew of an Epson Emulation for the Atari laser printer yet? If so how might I obtain it? Thanks.
boyd@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd) (02/05/90)
In article <2734@isc-br.ISC-BR.COM>, michaela@iscuve.isc-br.com (Michael Albo) writes: > >I was wondering if anyone knew of an Epson Emulation for the Atari >laser printer yet? If so how might I obtain it? Thanks. I know of one called LaserBrain, a German program. I believe some if not all the versions are PD, but I could be wrong. I have no idea how you could go about getting it, but perhaps you could try some PD disk vendors. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------+------------------------------------- Mickey Boyd | "Nobody can be exactly like me. | Even I have trouble doing it." FSU Comp Sci | - Tallulah Bankhead ---------------------------------+------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------------------------