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From: WMartin@SIMTEL20.ARPA
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Subject: More on cheap laser printer
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Date: Wed, 1-Feb-84 11:36:56 EST
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From:  William G. Martin 

Another comment on the cheap laser printer, forwarded from Laser-Lovers:
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From: Crean.HENR@PARC-MAXC.ARPA
Subject: Re: Cheap laser printer reported
In-reply-to: "WMartin@SIMTEL20.ARPA's message of Fri, 27 Jan 84 13:15:41
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To: William G. Martin 
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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

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