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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
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In article <889@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> vkr@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu.UUCP (Vidhyanath K. Rao) writes:
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>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.


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          I think you'll find there's less to me than meets the eye.
richard@gryphon.CTS.COM                               {backbone}!gryphon!richard