Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!genrad!wjh12!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr From: tgr@brl-tgr.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: laser printers to replace impact printers Message-ID: <6180@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Thu, 29-Nov-84 14:23:17 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.6180 Posted: Thu Nov 29 14:23:17 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Dec-84 05:15:04 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 21 We are considering replacing all of our central facility impact printers (~900 line/min CDC and IBM printers) with a collection of 25-40 page/minute laser printers. We currently have several small Cannon based (Imagen and QMS) laser printers and would like to stay at 300 dpi, but would consider 240dpi if we have to, and if the print quality is good. We would also like controllers which can do full page bit maps so that graphics is possible. I have several questions: 1) I am aware of two laser printers which might fill the bill, namely the QMS-2400 and a Holoscan 24 page/min device. Are there any others that we should look at. (We don't like the output quality of the Imagen Delfax device.) 2) Does anyone have experience with such devices in this application (high volume, central facility printer). Thanks, Bill [johnston@lbl-csam] 415/486-5014