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!genrad!grkermit!masscomp!clyde!floyd!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!laser-lovers From: laser-lovers@uw-beaver.UUCP Newsgroups: fa.laser-lovers Subject: IBM 6670p? Message-ID: <806@uw-beaver> Date: Tue, 31-Jan-84 17:30:51 EST Article-I.D.: uw-beave.806 Posted: Tue Jan 31 17:30:51 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 20:13:41 EST Sender: root@uw-beave Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 26 From cak@Purdue.ARPA Tue Jan 31 14:30:42 1984 Does anyone have experience with this beast? An IBM salesman recently contacted us about it, claiming - can be loaded with up to 2700 sheets of paper - all point addressable - graphics, fonts, etc. - down loaded fonts - rotation mode - portrait or landscape - is both a copier and a printer - can print on both sides of paper - loads of other features. Cost of basic unit (hmm, does the basic unit do all those things?) would be about $31k to us (don't know how that relates to the rest of the world). It uses EBCDIC, but the salesman claims knowledge of code converters from ASCII. They are even willing to demo it from their Chicago office over a phone line! So, I would like to hear of good/bad expriences, if someone knows what marking engine is used, etc. I have heard from one person already that the paper path is quite baroque and that the IBM repair people spend a lot of time fixing paper jams; anything else? Cheers, chris ----------