rcpt@eutrc4.urc.tue.nl (Piet Tutelaers) (01/23/90)
The LPS20 Laserprinter from DEC seems an interesting printer. According to
its specification this printer has the following abilities:
a) Postscript (300dpi)
b) can print paper on both sides
c) uses A4 AND A3 (size of two A4's) paper
d) can be hooked up to DECnet and/or TCP/IP (network printer).
Despite these nice features, I would like to get some extra information
from people using this printer (and not from the people selling it).
Regarding b) Is it posssible to print both sides of an A3?
What has a user to do to get both sides printed?
For accounting: counts a double printed page as one page?
Regarding d) In a heterogeneous environment (VMS, ULTRIX, SUN, ...) one
whould presumably prefer TCP/IP. Does anybody has experience?
What kind of accounting tools are available?
How does TeX-output look like? I remember a complain made by Peter Flynn
regarding the poor quality of the LPS40. I would be pleased to see how this
is solved (if it's solved) with the LPS20.
(Here a copy of the complain made by Peter Flynn:
>>I think the printserver 40 suffers like the ln03 (ricoh) from just being
>>badly made and badly driven. The quality isn't just poor, it's bad.
>>Thin lines are notorious. I don't think there ius a fix, just buy a
>>better mnachine. Any rule below 1pt is likely to suffer from varying
>>numbers of pixels being printed, depending on where in the page it falls.
>>Trying to do ruled tables is therefore a major quality problem.
>>
I hope to get a lot of information. If so, I will make a summary available,
for other interested people.
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