nkenig@andrew.ATL.GE.COM (Neil S Kenig) (09/28/90)
I'm looking for reccomendations for hardcopy output from 4Ds. I need to produce both paper and transparencies. I'm interested in fairly high quality, i.e. something better than a color laser printer or a thermal wax printer that has only a few colors and dithers the rest. I'm most intrigued by the new thermal dye sublimation printers. I prefer a device with a digital input, as opposed to analog RGB, so that it can be used as a shared resource among several machines networked together on Ethernet (Suns & SGs). I'm also interested in pricing information and relative cost per copy for the various technologies. Neil Kenig | GE Advanced Technology Labs | Internet: nkenig@atl.ge.com 300 Route 38, Bldg. 145-2 | uucp: ...!mcnc!ge-rtp!atl.ge.com!nkenig Moorestown, NJ 08057 | Voice: (609) 866-6442
blbates@AERO4.LARC.NASA.GOV ("Brent L. Bates AAD/TAB MS361 x42854") (10/01/90)
The best copies I have seen came from a hard copy unit from Kodak. The paper prints looked almost like photo's and the transparencies looked good and durable. It has a digital interface and I think the price is around $10k, but I am not sure. I would give you more information, but what I have isn't readily accessable. We have a Tektronix 4693D thermal hard copy device. I has 8 basic colors and dithers to get 16M. We like it, it does its job, and we haven't had any major problems with it. The only thing we don't like about it is if you have a very dark background on a transparency, it tends to melt quickly. -- Brent L. Bates NASA-Langley Research Center M.S. 361 Hampton, Virginia 23665-5225 (804) 864-2854 E-mail: blbates@aero4.larc.nasa.gov or blbates@aero2.larc.nasa.gov
ianh@bhpmrl.oz.au (Ian Hoyle) (10/02/90)
nkenig@andrew.ATL.GE.COM (Neil S Kenig) writes: >I'm looking for reccomendations for hardcopy output from 4Ds. I need >to produce both paper and transparencies. I'm interested in fairly >high quality, i.e. something better than a color laser printer or a >thermal wax printer that has only a few colors and dithers the rest. >I'm most intrigued by the new thermal dye sublimation printers. I >prefer a device with a digital input, as opposed to analog RGB, so >that it can be used as a shared resource among several machines >networked together on Ethernet (Suns & SGs). I saw a Kodak XL7700 printer with drivers for the SG being shown by GW Hannaway at Siggraph '90 on the SGI stand - looked *great*, albeit a bit pricy. ian -- Ian Hoyle /\/\ Image Processing & Data Analysis Group / / /\ BHP Melbourne Research Laboratories / / / \ 245 Wellington Rd, Mulgrave, 3170 / / / /\ \ AUSTRALIA \ \/ / / / \ / / / Phone : +61-3-560-7066 \/\/\/ FAX : +61-3-561-6709 E-mail : ianh@bhpmrl.oz.au