jxh@cup.portal.com (05/27/88)
I am looking for a relatively low-cost (~$4K) Postscript laser printer, and I'm too lazy to do a market survey (but at least I'm honest! :-). Let's hear from people who bought something other than an Apple LaserWriter or an Imagen or other high-buck box. A Centronics(-style) parallel interface would be nice (using a PC, alas!), 9.6Kbps serial OK as a fallback position (i.e. I do not need an Ethernet interface, but I'd be interested to hear about them as optional field upgrades). Eight pages/minute minimum, the more the merrier (consistent with having no money). Even things up to ~$7K could be entertained; our Marketing department is going to spring for it ultimately, and they just need me to tell them the ante. I have some experience with a Kyocera F1000A (price unknown) which has its own bizarre "language" called, by them, PRESCRIBE. I have never heard of it; more to the point, neither has my software. I was wrestling with this when the Boss produced some old Macintosh disks with interesting pictures on them and asked me whether the Kyocera could regurgitate them. In the interest of saving time (mine, not his) I gave him a flat "no." I assumed, aloud, that he would have a *much* smoother time of it if he could transform the rented Kyocera into something that understood Postscript; that emulated the LaserWriter rather than the HP LaserJet. I'm out of my ken, here. Am I all wrong? Is there a simpler way to do this? EMail me or post here, as you desire. All information gratefully consumed. -Jim Hickstein, VSAT Systems, Inc, San Jose, CA jxh@cup.portal.com ...!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!jxh