EETP735@CALSTATE.BITNET (07/02/90)
To: Laser Lovers ------------ [I realize that this may sound like an ad for NewGen Laser printers, however, I am not affiliated with NewGen, only a VERY satisfied customer.] For those of you looking for high res, faster printers, you need to know that there are alternatives to the Laser-Master (which, by the way, is not a printer, but a board, and not all the advertisements claim) In answer to some questions about high resolution postscript printers, and fast laser printers, I would like to introduce you to a new arrival to the Postscript market, the NewGen Turbo/PS series of Postscript printers. The Turbo/PS 400 is a 400X400 dpi Postscript laser printer that outprints the Laserwriter NTX by at least five times the speed, and almost twice the density. NewGen is a Postscript clone that is built over a Canon-SX engine, and resembles the HP LaserJet in appearance, uses BitStream internal fonts (the same 35 resident in the NTX), and is fully Adobe compatible. The paper cassette and toner cassette are standard Canon, but that is where the similarity ends. The NewGen postscript interpreter is driven by a RISC 8960 chip, which processes even complex graphics five times faster than the Laserwriter NTX. NewGen also includes a 186 processor for I/O and uses caching and double buffering where possible. NewGen also produces an 800X400 dpi upgrade kit for the 400 dpi printer that transforms it into a 800/400 dpi selectable plain paper typesetter (a real printer, not a processing board) that uses double buffering for additional speed. All of the Turbo/PSs include parallel, serial, and Appletalk ports and can be connected to three devices simultaneously. NewGen has included Postscript, HP LaserJet Plus, HP Plotter, and Epson 800 emulations with supporting type fonts. Emulations and port selections are all selectable from the front panel in plain English. The real kicker to this story is that the printers, while being faster, more versitile, and producing higher quality, are cheaper than the NTX. The Turbo/PS 400, for example is about $5500 (retail). I am not a sales person for NewGen, I just find the printers *GREAT* and want all of you to know about them. I have bought two of the 400 dpi systems (one for each of my jobs) and use them for a variety of DTP applications, with Macintosh and IBM clone computers (The parallel really zips!). The printers have been reviewed in COMPUTERWORLD, Feb 19,1990, and in PC PUBLISHING, Dec 1989, and were featured in the Aldus, Quark, and Microsoft booths at MacWorld. Fran Holtsberry, Publications Editor Cal State, Chico eetp735@calstate.edu --------------------------- *FYI* Contact: NewGen Systems Corporation 17580 Newhope St Fountain Valley, CA 92708 (714)641-8900 Joe Morreale, sales rep