jb@aries5.uucp (James Bruyn) (12/06/89)
We at the University of Waterloo are looking for a replacement for our Imagewriter II's. We have an each of two labs, a volume of 1500 to 3000 pages per day. Unfortunately the 10 ImageWriter II's in each lab do not seem able to cope with the 150-300 pages per day volume that is expected of them. Replacing them with Apple LaserWriter's has been rejected on the cost of the printers and supplies. We essentially would be going through one toner cartridge every day or every other day. We are looking for alternatives. Some ideas that we have considered include: High speed matrix printer (compatible to ImageWriter II in printer commands) hooked up to serial port of server. Print spooler on a VAX/SUN connected to a high speed printer (possibly laser). However if this is a laser printer, we still want students to be able to access the printer, cope with paper jams, etc. If worst comes to worst, we might consider writing a spooler for the printer, or if the hardware vendor wants, develop an AppleTalk connection for the printer. HP, Digital, Toshiba, do you have anything that we could make work? If you know of any possible hardware/software solutions, even if they are very esoteric, please email me. I will summarize. If you are interested in us considering developing a solution please email me. Jim Bruyn Computer Systems Group University of Waterloo TEL: (519)-888-4683 FAX: (519)-746-5422 BITNET: jb@watcsg UUCP: jb@aries5
rmf@bpdsun1.uucp (Rob Finley) (12/10/89)
In article <977@maytag.waterloo.edu> jb@aries5.UUCP (James Bruyn) writes: >We at the University of Waterloo are looking for a replacement for our >Imagewriter II's. We have an each of two labs, a volume of 1500 to 3000 >pages per day. Unfortunately the 10 ImageWriter II's in each lab do In a very recent issue of MIPS magazine, NISSHO advertised a very industrial laser printer that lists for about $22,000 and talks with appletalk as well as RS232, 442 (?) and possibly centronics parallel. Well, give them a ring and they would love to send you info and samples. Trust me. The print engine is rated at 60,000 pages/month officially. Speed is up to 20 pages per minute. We want one because it can do 11 by 17 sheets of paper and speaks postscript fluently. Also, it looks like it has a collator assembly included which would be neato for publishing instruction manuals for our products. Right now, our schematics are adequately published but they could be better. Please email me with what your experiences with this nice machine. We need to justify our desperate want for this machine. ----- Rob quintro!bpdsun1!rmf@lll-winken.llnl.gov uunet!tiamat!quintro!bpdsun1!rmf