weesh@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Darweesh) (09/24/90)
My friend and I are looking for an inexpensive laserwriter. Apple and non-apple recommendations are welcome. Also, if you have a used Laserwriter SC or something, send me some mail. Currently, we are looking at the Laserwriter SC (with an educational discount). Our goal (even though it may be unattainable) is to find a laser for $1000 or less. Please let me know of any ideas you have. Also, if you want to reply to me directly, send to the address below. Replying to this mail will not work. -Mike Darweesh (and Dean Acito) weesh@crd.ge.com
owen@raven.phys.washington.edu (Russell Owen) (09/26/90)
We just bought an HP LaserJet III. With the postscript cartridge and appletalk interface (both from HP) and 2Mb of RAM from Technology Works the whole thing was $1900 with academic discount. That's less than Apple's new postscript printer. And we could have had one of HP's II series printer for a few hundred less. Goods: - excellent design -- robust and adding the extra things I mentioned was very easy - nice output (has resolution enhancement, which does seem to improve things some) - good front panel (easy to configure things like disabling the startup page) Bads: - cannot accept a second paper tray (unlike some HP's II series printers) - slow on complex pages but fine on normal stuff (the postscript cartridge uses a 68000) MacWorld or MacUser (I think the former) rated postscript printers this month. Check it out. Russell Owen owen@raven.phys.washington.edu Astronomy Dept. FM-20 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195
Cherry@Frodo.MGH.Harvard.EDU (J. Michael Cherry) (09/28/90)
GCC has a very inexpensive Postscript SCSI printer called the PLP (Personal Laser Printer). I saw it at MacWorld in Boston and it looked very good. The font technology is good, the toner is cheap and the list price is around $1400. I have no connection to GCC, but if I had some extra money for a cheap Postscript laserprinter that was not on Appletalk I'd buy the GCC printer. Mike Cherry cherry@frodo.mgh.harvard.edu Department of Molecular Biology Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 617-726-5955
c3ar@zaphod.uchicago.edu (Walter C3arlip) (09/29/90)
In article <4282@husc6.harvard.edu> Cherry@Frodo.MGH.Harvard.EDU (J. Michael Cherry) writes: >GCC has a very inexpensive Postscript SCSI printer called the PLP >(Personal Laser Printer). I saw it at MacWorld in Boston and it looked >very good. The font technology is good, the toner is cheap and the list >price is around $1400. > Thought I'd better correct the slight inaccuracy here: The PLP is a nice laser printer, but it is *not* postscript. The PLP is a quickdraw printer. (I've seen it as inexpensive as $1200). GCC *does* make a nice postscript printer as well, the BLP ("business laser printer", I think), which is similar to the PLP with postscript added. This printer costs more like $1999 (from a GCC dealer). That makes it competitive with the other new "personal" laser printers on the market, like the Apple Personal Laserwriter, the QMS PS-410, the TI-Microlaser, the HP Deskjet IIP, etc., all of which are roughly in the $2000 range. These printers all differ somewhat in their capabilities: they have different marking engines and speeds; different kinds of input trays, etc., etc., so there is quite a bit of choice. Unfortunatly, though, I still know of no postscript printer for less than about $1800. --Walter _____________________________________________________________________________ Walter Carlip **** c3ar@finite.chi.il.us **** (the "3" is invisible) **** c3ar%finite.chi.il.us@gargoyle.uchicago.edu **** _____________________________________________________________________________