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- From: art@cs.brown.edu (graphics artists)
- Subject: Help me find a printer! Laser? Color DeskJet?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.204038.11330@cs.brown.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.brown.edu
- Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 20:40:38 GMT
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- Hi - I'm looking to buy a good printer for my amiga 3000.
- My primary uses are graphics and maybe some DTP. I need to produce
- good quality black and white transparancies that have a high
- degree of opacity.
- I can't spend more than $1000 on the thing, including any
- expansion memory, first toner cartridge... I'd prefer a printer around
- $800 or lower.
- The first question - should I get a laser printer or this nifty
- color deskjet?
- How's the deskjet stack up? Is its printout opaque? Can it do 24bit color
- printout in 300dpi? Can it print transparancies? And can it be expanded to PostScript someday?
- Ok, and then, if I decide to do the laserprinter thing - what kind do you
- recommend? I've seen a few brands for sale cheap - the TI Microlaser plus, the
- Epson ActionLaser, a low-end Panasonic, the IBM LaserPrinterE, and I've heard rumors about an inexpensive
- Okidata... Any suggestions?
- I figure I'll need at least 1.5 megs for graphics... Is that reasonable? My
- amiga has 6 megs - is that relevant?
- I'd really like to get a printer that I could add PostScript to later, if that's
- possible - unless there's something in this range that already has PS...
- Many many thanks!
-
- Charles Bandes
- RISD '93 - Printmaking, Photography, Computer Graphics
- bdnee@silver.lcs.mit.edu
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- Email to bdnee please!
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