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Subject: Re: Imagen Procurement
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Date: Thu, 16-Aug-84 22:06:22 EDT
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From: Richard Furuta 
As luck would have it, I ran into Dan Curtis of Imagen about 1/2 hour
after reading the note asking for information about Imagen's current
state.  He tells me that things are a little disordered at Imagen
right now as they recently moved from Palo Alto to Santa Clara.
Apparently their net mail service has also been disrupted for the past
few weeks.  He suggests that if you have problems with Imagen that you
call him directly.  Imagen's number is now (408) 986-9400.  Dan's in
Customer Service, I think, rather than marketing and has been very
helpful to me in the past.

The reason I ran into Dan is that I am in Palo Alto for the TeX Users
Group meeting (rather than my normal Seattle location).  Imagen is
demoing two printers here.  One is their 8/300 using the Canon CX
print engine.  The other is "not a product".  It's based on a Ricoh
300dpi print engine which runs at 12 pages/minute.  If it were a
product, they tell me that the expected cost would be around $20,000.

Also demoing stuff here is QMS and Talaris---both showing the QMS 800
(also based on the Canon CX engine).

Rumors publically announced at the meeting by David Fuchs of TeX fame:
An unnamed company expects to put out a laser printer "appliance" with
bit-mapped capability based on the CX for about $7000.

					--Rick
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