don@brillig (Don Hopkins) (10/04/87)
A double sided laser printer sure would be nice. But what I really want is one with a "clippaper" command, that can make arbitrarily shaped snippets of paper. Now /that/ would be handy. (Think of how nice it would be for printing NeWS windows!) c(-; -Don
ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) (10/05/87)
Gee Don, all you have to do is turn up the power of the laser and stroke the path. We've got a Telaris printer that regularly burns paper into little bits (actually, I think it's the fuser that does it). -Ron
hedrick@topaz.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) (10/05/87)
Diconix, a subsidiary of Kodak, makes an ink-jet printer at 300 dpi that handles Postscript and prints on both sides of the paper. Our main qualm is that this is a printer in the 20ppm price range, but as far as we can tell they haven't done the work necessary to make it interpret Postscript much faster than the Laserwriter. (Well, maybe a little faster: more memory and a more recent version of the Adobe code, but we're looking for something with a fast 68020 or equivalent.) As I'm sure everyone on this newsgroup knows, the first vendor to offer a genuine 20ppm or higher Postscript printer will make a mint. (Printers that have to be fed using DECnet don't count.)
elwell@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Clayton Elwell) (10/05/87)
ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes:
Gee Don, all you have to do is turn up the power of the laser
and stroke the path. We've got a Telaris printer that regularly
burns paper into little bits (actually, I think it's the fuser
that does it).
-Ron
It's the fuser. Talaris (and QMS) used the Xerox XP-12 marking engine
for their 12 ppm printers. The XP-12 has one of the more tortuous
paper paths ever invented. We have a Xerox 2700 that burns paper
fairly often. In the last incident, the printing sequence ended up as
follows:
Step 1. Feed two sheets simultaneously, one from each paper
cassette, and get them stuck halfway fed.
Step 2. Pour some toner down into the top paper cassette.
Step 3. Burn the aforementioned pieces of paper in half, so
that one half falls back out.
Step 4. Now that things are royally screwed up, signal a paper
jam.
Fun for everyone. One thing I like about our new printer is that it
has a *straight* paper path.
--
Clayton M. Elwell
The Ohio State University Department of Computer and Information Science
(614) 292-6546 UUCP: ...!cbosgd!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!elwell
ARPA: elwell@ohio-state.arpa (not working well right now)bill@dayton.UUCP (William T. Argyros) (10/06/87)
In article <15325@topaz.rutgers.edu> hedrick@topaz.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) writes: > but as >far as we can tell they haven't done the work necessary to make it >interpret Postscript much faster than the Laserwriter. (Well, maybe a >little faster: more memory and a more recent version of the Adobe >code, but we're looking for something with a fast 68020 or >equivalent.) We have had Diconix Dijit 1 printers (non postscript, Xerox 2700 emulation) for over a year and a half now. We just purchased 38 of the Dijit 1/PS (PostScript) printers. I talked to my contact at Diconix today and he said: "How would like your Dijit 1/PS's to run 2 maybe 3 times faster?" He then eluded to a new 68020 version of the PostScript engine for the printer due out sometime late this year. We are waiting with baited breath.... -- UUCP: bill@DHDSC.MN.ORG Bill Argyros/1060 rutgers!dayton!bill Dayton-Hudson Dept. Store. Co. ATT: (612) 375-6651 700 On The Mall Mpls, Mn. 55402