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!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!houxm!hogpc!houti!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!laser-lovers From: laser-lovers@uw-beaver.UUCP Newsgroups: fa.laser-lovers Subject: Re: IBM 6670 Message-ID: <846@uw-beaver> Date: Fri, 17-Feb-84 14:45:46 EST Article-I.D.: uw-beave.846 Posted: Fri Feb 17 14:45:46 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Feb-84 02:46:05 EST Sender: root@uw-beave Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 29 >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 FurutaReSent-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