SMITHM@QUCDN.QUEENSU.CA (03/15/91)
Recent articles in PC Week (March 4) and Computing Canada (March 14) make this printer sound like an incredible buy. 17 ppm PCL 5 plus Adobe PostScript (transparently mixed) plus two bins and duplexing! I'm told our price for the above plus 4Mb additional memory is $CAN6240. Anyone on the list actually have one of these yet and care to offer comments to the list? Mike Smith SMITHM@QUCDN.BITNET Queen's University Michael.D.Smith@QueensU.CA Computing and Communications Services (613) 545-2024
woo@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Alex Woo RAA) (03/28/91)
More questions on the LJ IIIsi.
1. Will it automatically switch between PCL5 and Postscript,
assuming you have the Postscript option?
2. Will it switch between ports or can only one be connected?
3. What about switching between the Appletalk and parallel or serial
ports?
4. How reliable is the double-sided option? How is this specified
in Postscript?
Alex Woo
woo@ames.arc.nasa.gov
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======================================================================henry@ZOO.TORONTO.EDU (Henry Spencer) (03/31/91)
In article <9103281732.AA04905@crayola.cs.UMD.EDU> woo@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Alex Woo RAA) writes: >1. Will it automatically switch between PCL5 and Postscript, >assuming you have the Postscript option? Allegedly, yes. >4. How reliable is the double-sided option? How is this specified >in Postscript? If it's anything like the situation on the IIID, the paper comes almost all the way out of the back and is then sucked back in. It ought to be pretty reliable, kludge though it appears to be. (Note that it appears to be an *option*, not standard equipment, on the IIIsi.) Undoubtedly they've just added one or two PostScript operators to invoke it. Any PostScript implementation has to come with documentation on its implementation-specific operators. -- "The stories one hears about putting up | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology SunOS 4.1.1 are all true." -D. Harrison| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry