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From: William G. Martin 
Subject: Cheap laser printer reported
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The enclosed showed up on Info-Micro, so I thought I'd forward them on
to Laser-Lovers for your info. 

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   1) 23-Jan hplabs!hao!seismo!ut Laser Printer for
   2) 24-Jan hplabs!sdcrdcf!darre Re: Laser Printer for 695 dollars

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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

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From: hplabs!sdcrdcf!darrelj@ucb-vax
Subject: Re: Laser Printer for 695 dollars
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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
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