WMartin@SIMTEL20.ARPA (02/01/84)
From: William G. Martin <WMartin@SIMTEL20.ARPA>
Another comment on the cheap laser printer, forwarded from Laser-Lovers:
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Subject: Re: Cheap laser printer reported
In-reply-to: "WMartin@SIMTEL20.ARPA's message of Fri, 27 Jan 84 13:15:41
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To: William G. Martin <WMartin@SIMTEL20.ARPA>
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ReSent-from: Richard Furuta <Furuta@WASHINGTON.ARPA>
ReSent-to: "Laser Lovers": ;
The LBP-CX certainly is an important product announcement but the $695
is an OEM price to established vendors (e.g. Apple, HP, etc.) signing up
to take maybe 100,000 over a few years. The MX-80 is probable $100-150
under the same conditions. This machine is based on the Canon PC-20
machine (the Jack Klugman (Quincy) advertisments) and likely comes
without much interface (supplied by OEM). The copier goes for $1295 and
the cartridges for $65 from Canon distributors in a high volume
business.
The prints I have seen from the machine are excellent though done in a
simple Helvetica 8 or 10 point at 300 spi.
Pete Crean
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