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From: laser-lovers@uw-beaver.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Cheap laser printer reported
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Date: Tue, 31-Jan-84 19:55:49 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 31 19:55:49 1984
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From Crean.HENR@PARC-MAXC.ARPA Tue Jan 31 16:55:44 1984
To: William G. Martin 
cc: Laser-Lovers@WASHINGTON.ARPA
ReSent-date: Tue 31 Jan 84 16:40:33-PST
ReSent-from: Richard Furuta 
ReSent-to: "Laser Lovers": ;

The LBP-CX certainly is an important product announcement but the $695
is an OEM price to established vendors (e.g. Apple, HP, etc.) signing up
to take maybe 100,000 over a few years.  The MX-80 is probable $100-150
under the same conditions.  This machine is based on the Canon PC-20
machine (the Jack Klugman (Quincy) advertisments) and likely comes
without much interface (supplied by OEM).  The copier goes for $1295 and
the cartridges for $65 from Canon distributors in a high volume
business.

The prints I have seen from the machine are excellent though done in a
simple Helvetica 8 or 10 point at 300 spi.

Pete Crean