Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!mailrus!husc6!bloom-beacon!oberon!cit-vax!elroy!gryphon!richard From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Colour output technology Message-ID: <7295@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: 25 Sep 88 22:42:30 GMT Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 29 In article <889@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> vkr@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu.UUCP (Vidhyanath K. Rao) writes: > >I thought that printers with resolution >= 300dpi (truely, not the funny >specs on dot matrix printers) in color are available. I don't know if they >are laser printers or thermal transfers or what. I believe that QMS makes one. Yes, QMS makes a colour PostScript printer using the Mistubishi thermal dye transfer engine. I can't remember if it's 240 or 300 dpi. >BTW, if you have to ask how much one costs, you can't afford it. $25,000.00 Calcomp make one that is definitly 240 dpi, and has kind of a VDI type of interface (circle, arc, etc) for 3 - 5 K. There are others, Tektronix has a 4693 thats real nice. There's also that one that is essentially a ``wax jet'' in that it uses solid wax which it melts and they sprays it like an ink jet. It's also about 4K. -- I think you'll find there's less to me than meets the eye. richard@gryphon.CTS.COM {backbone}!gryphon!richard