hgw@julia.math.ucla.edu (02/24/89)
Will the industry ever go to 400 dpi on scanners and printers? Why is it that this is the only area where little is happening? I'm glad the NeXT printer supports it and I've seen one scanner capable of it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Harold Wong (213) 825-9040 UCLA-Mathnet; 3915F MSA; 405 Hilgard Ave.; Los Angeles, CA 90024-1555 ARPA: hgw@math.ucla.edu BITNET: hgw%math.ucla.edu@INTERBIT
peter@versatc.UUCP (Peter Tapscott) (02/28/89)
In article <491@sunset.MATH.UCLA.EDU> hgw@MATH.UCLA.EDU (Harold Wong) writes: >Will the industry ever go to 400 dpi on scanners and printers? Why is it that >this is the only area where little is happening? Versatec has made 400dpi electrostatic printer/plotters for years. They served mostly minis and mainforames, but as personal computers get more powerful and electrostatic plotters get cheaper, you will see more 400dpi plotters. For about 1.5X the cost of a high-end pen plotter, you can buy an electrostatic that will provide several orders of magnitude more speed and greatly improved plot-to-plot reliability. Hope this answers your questions about printer/plotters. -- |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | Peter Tapscott {pyramid|ames|sun|vsi1|leadsv}!versatc!peter | | Versatec, 2805 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, Calif 95051 (408)982-4235 | |----------------------------------------------------------------------|
jth90342@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (03/01/89)
A startup printer company called NewGen has a 400dpi postscript laser printer that uses a *FAST* RISC driver board. I've seen output and it looks very nice. Retail is $6495. I have more info somewhere if you want it... jeff huber jth90342@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
melby@s.cs.uiuc.edu (03/03/89)
I think that the Canon LaserShot has a resolution of 400 dpi, although I'm not sure. A Macintosh driver is available for the LaserShot. However, PostScript is not supported.
mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (03/06/89)
In article <491@sunset.MATH.UCLA.EDU> hgw@MATH.UCLA.EDU (Harold Wong) writes: >Will the industry ever go to 400 dpi on scanners and printers? Why is it that >this is the only area where little is happening? I would certainly hope that 400 d.p.i printers DON'T catch on! That is not enough - the next step should be 600 d.p.i., then 1200 - that would be good enough.