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- From: rjones@wsl.dec.com (Russ Jones)
- Subject: DECnews/Digital Announces Wide-Carriage Printer for $599
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.213633.5387@PA.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 21:36:33 GMT
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- Digital Equipment Corporation
- Maynard, Massachusetts 01754-2571
- Editorial contact:
-
- Richard Lee Goldberg
- Video, Image and Print Systems
- (508) 635-8739
-
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- COMDEX Booth #4106
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- DIGITAL ANNOUNCES WIDE-CARRIAGE PRINTER FOR $599
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- LAS VEGAS, NV -- NOVEMBER 16, 1992 -- Digital Equipment Corporation
- announced today a wide-carriage dot matrix printer aggressively
- priced at $599. The wide-carriage LA310 MultiPrinter handles up to
- five-part forms and includes simultaneously active interfaces,
- emulation assignment by port, and automatic port sensing, which
- enables seamless operation in mixed computing environments. The
- LA310 printer is Digital's first dot matrix printer with these
- resident capabilities. The announcement was made at Fall COMDEX,
- which opens here today.
-
- The advanced paper-handling features of the LA310 MultiPrinter,
- including automatic paper parking, auto paper loading and zero tear,
- make it an easy-to-use as well as economical printer.
-
- A replacement for Digital's LA210 MultiPrinter, the new LA310
- printer features faster speed, quieter operation, and twice the
- reliability at roughly a third the price. The 300 cps printer
- includes Epson, DEC ANSI PPL2 and IBM ProPrinter protocols and
- prints ten national languages and bar codes. Paper handling
- includes fan-fold, cutsheet, labels and envelopes.
-
- "Digital's LA310 MultiPrinter is intended for billing and data
- processing applications in manufacturing and accounting environments
- requiring multipart forms," said Larry Cabrinety, vice president of
- Digital's Video, Image and Print Systems Group. "This wide-carriage
- printer has been designed with the reliability which customers in
- these environments demand."
-
- The 9-wire LA310 printer has the ability to print on up to
- five-part forms (with optional tractor) and includes both serial and
- parallel ports for seamless printing from terminals, workstations
- and PCs. The printer's four print modes range from high-speed draft
- to near letter quality.
-
- With Digital's LATprint ThinWire Ethernet interface, the LA310
- MultiPrinter can be shared by any desktop device in a ThinWire
- Ethernet Local Area Network. With its wide carriage and multiple
- protocols, the LA310 printer is an ideal shared printer.
-
- The LA310 MultiPrinter is priced at $599 in single quantities.
- The optional pull tractor is priced at $89 in single quantities.
- Quantity discounts are available. Shipments begin in December.
-
- The LA310 printer is available on a private label basis through
- a program Digital announced in September to make enabling technology
- available to a larger number of users through selected "innovation
- vendors." These companies, including systems vendors and large
- integrators, can now provide advanced printing technologies from
- Digital in their own product offerings. Private label features
- include software development, controller and other hardware
- modifications to customer specification, user documentation, full
- product branding and packaging, and support from Digital's Six Sigma
- quality monitoring process.
-
- Digital Equipment Corporation, headquartered in Maynard,
- Massachusetts, is the leading worldwide supplier of networked
- computer systems, software and services. Digital pioneered and
- leads the industry in interactive, distributed and multivendor
- computing. Digital and its business partners deliver the power to
- use the best integrated solutions - from desktop to data center -
- in open information environments.
-
- ####
-
- Note to Editors: LA, MultiPrinter and DEC are trademarks of Digital
- Equipment Corporation.
-
- IBM and ProPrinter are registered trademarks of
- International Business Machines Corporation.
-
- CORP/93/877
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