[comp.laser-printers] High

henry@SUN.COM (Henry McGilton -- Software Products) (12/02/89)

What Ho,
    apologies in advance if these questions have
already been flogged to death in this forum.

I am interested in peoples' evaluations of PostScript laser
printers with resolutions higher than the standard
LaserWriter 300 dpi.

Firstly, there's an outfit calling themselves LaserSmiths
in Santa Clara.  They claim a 415 dpi printer for $4,000.
Anybody seen one, touched one, printed anything on one,
know it it's `real' PostScript, or have anything at all to
say about this?

Secondly, Varityper were pushing a 600 dpi laser printer
a while back.  Anybody have any information on this?  They
weren't quoting any prices, which means to me that they're
expensive.  Anybody out there have access to a VT600?  Are
there any local (Northern California) service bureaus that
have these machines?

Thanks in Advance,
	............... Henry
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DWILLH89@IRLEARN.BITNET (Dermot Williams) (12/09/89)

One of the most recent issues of PC Magazine - November 10th or therabouts
I think - has their annual printer review which lists many laser printers
including the VariTyper 600 asked about.   As far as I remember they had
high praise for it.   If anyone wants any specific info about their review
on any printer (they covered a very wide range, devoted something like half
the magazine to it) mail me direct and I will dig out the mag.

Apologies if someone else has already drawn your attention to this magazine,
I missed a stack of messages this week.

Dermot.