cca@pur-phy (Charles C. Allen) (09/27/89)
I'm looking for a color printer. The main use would be for paper and transparency printouts for reports and presentations. The three color printers that are less than $3000 I'm aware of are the ImageWriter II, the HP PaintJet, and the Tektronix ColorQuick. A LaserWriter II would handle the normal B&W jobs for our group. I own an IW myself, and don't consider it to have acceptable resolution for what we want. I also don't know how it works with transparencies, although I've heard you can use HP PaintJet transparency paper. The HP PaintJet is marginally better in resolution. I've gotten mixed responses about whether it requires special paper and what the output quality is like. The Tek ColorQuick has reasonable resolution, but the recent Byte review implied that you really need to use special paper to get good looking output. The 11x17 paper-handling ability would be useful for B&W drawings as well. I'd like to hear from people who have used the PaintJet or ColorQuick. Charles Allen cca@newton.physics.purdue.edu
jdm@boulder.Colorado.EDU (James D. Meiss) (09/27/89)
How about the $10K postsript laserprinter from QMS (See add in the latest MacWeek). Does anybody have experience using this? There is also a Tektronix model, though I don't know the price. I would like to know how one actually prints to such a beast: the sales rep. just said you have to dump postscript to the thing....so how do I create a color postscript file? Another question: how expensive are these things to run? I guess you have to by color ink sheets or rolls. They said its something like $50 for 100 pages of output.... Jim Meiss jdm@euclid.Colorado.edu