Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 UW 5/3/83; site uw-beaver Path: utzoo!linus!security!genrad!grkermit!masscomp!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision!uw-beaver!laser-lovers From: laser-lovers@uw-beaver.UUCP Newsgroups: fa.laser-lovers Subject: WASHINGTON.ARPA mailer was obliged to send this message in 50-byte Message-ID: <804@uw-beaver> Date: Fri, 27-Jan-84 15:33:55 EST Article-I.D.: uw-beave.804 Posted: Fri Jan 27 15:33:55 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 1-Feb-84 01:23:50 EST Sender: root@uw-beave Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 103 From WMartin@SIMTEL20.ARPA Fri Jan 27 12:33:47 1984 individually Pushed segments because normal TCP stream transmission timed out. This probably indicates a problem with the receiving TCP or SMTP server. See your site's software support if you have any questions. Return-Path:Received: from SIMTEL20.ARPA by WASHINGTON.ARPA with TCP; Fri 27 Jan 84 12:15:54-PST Date: Fri 27 Jan 84 13:15:41-MST From: William G. Martin Subject: Cheap laser printer reported To: Laser-Lovers@WASHINGTON.ARPA cc: WMartin@SIMTEL20.ARPA ReSent-date: Fri 27 Jan 84 12:26:21-PST ReSent-from: Richard Furuta ReSent-to: "Laser Lovers": ; The enclosed showed up on Info-Micro, so I thought I'd forward them on to Laser-Lovers for your info. --------------- 1) 23-Jan hplabs!hao!seismo!ut Laser Printer for 2) 24-Jan hplabs!sdcrdcf!darre Re: Laser Printer for 695 dollars Message 1 -- ************************ Return-Path: Received: from BRL-VGR by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Mon 23 Jan 84 09:25:13-MST Received: From brl-gateway2.ARPA by BRL-VGR via smtp; 22 Jan 84 2:28 EST Received: From Sri-Unix.ARPA by BRL via smtp; 22 Jan 84 4:29 EST Received: from Usenet.uucp by sri-unix.uucp with rs232; 22 Jan 84 0:53-PST Date: 20 Jan 84 19:44:44-PST (Fri) To: info-micro@brl From: hplabs!hao!seismo!ut-sally!cyb-eng!shell!starr@ucb-vax Subject: Laser Printer for Article-I.D.: shell.160 Normally I skip over articles about laser printers, since they cost an arm and a leg. But this one caught my eye. Reprinted from 1/12/84 issue of Electronics Magazine: The LBP-CX, a desktop laser printer, uses cartridges to hold its dry single-component electrophotographic-development system. The cartridges are easily removed so that the unit can print in black, blue or brown. Up to 8 letter-sized pages per minute can be printed; paper is supplied manually or automatically from a cassette. The electrophotographic images may be transferred to a variety of stocks, including colored paper and transparencies. Two preset resolution levels are offered- 240 and 300 dots/in. With an appropriate image processor, the printer can produce a number of styles, forms, and scientific symbols as well as graphics. To be available in the second quarter, the laser printer will sell for about $695, comparable to better- quality daisy wheel printers. Canon USA Inc., One Cannon Plaza, Lake Success, NY 11042. Phone (516)488-6700. $695?? That's what it said. A laser printer that costs the same as an Epson FX-80? Wow! This was in the "New Products" section, and that means info came from the manufacturer. I have visions of the "up to 8 pages a minute" translating into "2 or 3 pages at best". If anyone sees any real output of this device, or can vouch for the manufac- turers speed claims, I'm sure others would be interested. This sounds like a bargain, and if it is true, I will hold onto my NEC printer a little longer. RF Starr Message 2 -- ************************ Return-Path: Received: from BRL-VGR by SIMTEL20.ARPA with TCP; Tue 24 Jan 84 08:23:26-MST Received: From brl-gateway2.ARPA by BRL-VGR via smtp; 24 Jan 84 3:14 EST Received: From Sri-Unix.ARPA by BRL via smtp; 24 Jan 84 3:05 EST Received: from Usenet.uucp by sri-unix.uucp with rs232; 23 Jan 84 23:55-PST Date: 22 Jan 84 8:17:22-PST (Sun) To: info-micro@brl From: hplabs!sdcrdcf!darrelj@ucb-vax Subject: Re: Laser Printer for 695 dollars Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.790 In-Reply-To: Article <160@shell.UUCP> Note that a raster-style printer of this resolution and speed uses about 700k to 1 megabits per second, plus one ten point font requires about 10 or 15 kilobytes for the font template. Preformatting an entire page in memory as a bitmap requires almost a megabyte of scratch space (needed only if document hasn't been presorted in page order, a daisy-wheel simulator could reasonably be limited to a 32Kbyte buffer to hold subscript/superscript excursions. -- Darrel J. Van Buer, PhD System Development Corp. 2500 Colorado Ave Santa Monica, CA 90406 (213)820-4111 x5449 ...{allegra,burdvax,cbosgd,hplabs,ihnp4,sdccsu3,trw-unix}!sdcrdcf!darrelj VANBUER@USC-ECL.ARPA -------