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From: laser-lovers@uw-beaver.UUCP
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Subject: Re: IBM 6670
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Date: Fri, 17-Feb-84 14:45:46 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 17 14:45:46 1984
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>From lacasse@Rand-Unix Fri Feb 17 11:45:41 1984
From: lacasse@Rand-Unix (Mark_LaCasse)
ReSent-date: Fri 17 Feb 84 11:42:51-PST
ReSent-from: Richard Furuta 
ReSent-to: "Laser Lovers": ;


We have two IBM 6670's (I don't know what a 6670p is).  We drive
them from Unix via an IBM 3032.  I read Judy Anderson's message with great
involvement.  Horribly, everything she says is true, and more.

I've written nroff macro's for the beast.  If you half space down for a
subscript, or up for a super, the printer decides to open up a blank half
line there, and there's nothing you can do to close it.  Underlined
characters count as one of your fonts.  That's two underlined fonts on the
same page!  (and without many ASCII symbols)

If you print on both sides (they call this "full-duplex" just to confuse
the rest of the world), in addition to jamming like crazy as Judy
mentioned, it also slows to a few copies per minute.

It does have a fairly high resolution marking engine when it is clean.

If you have any ambitions beyond a pretty line printer, don't buy one.

    ....this is all personal opinion....

	mark lacasse
		213/393-0411