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- From: brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: Laser Printers for the SUN
- Message-ID: <324@ftms.UUCP>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 16:40:08 GMT
- References: <1992Sep3.134303.12672@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- Reply-To: brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot)
- Organization: Vidiot's Other Hangout
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- In article <1992Sep3.134303.12672@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> mcquay@ame.gsfc.nasa.gov (Keith McQuay) writes:
- <
- <I am in the process of researching for the best laser printer
- <for my money. We have recently looked at SUNs latest printer
- <which uses the memory on the SUN. Unfortunately, I don't have
- <the product list at hand, I have forgotten the item number and
- <name. Our biggest problem is finding a printer that can sit
- <on the network and be accessed by a heterogenous environment.
- <The majority of the work will be done with a SUN but others
- <such as an SGI will also use the printer. (We are planning
- <to use the SUN as the queue manager). Our second problem
- <we are planning to use the printer to print images. We are
- <currently working on a NASA project and alot of the work we
- <do involves images.
- <
- <If anyone in network land has a printer they are currently using
- <in this type of enviroment and really enjoy it, could you
- <please send me information on the company, item name, any
- <capabilities, costs and phone number. I would greatly
- <appreciate the information.
-
- Sounds like a job for the Sun SPARCprinter.
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- SPRN-400 list $2,299
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- Includes the NeWSprint software, the SBus card and the printer.
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- Works great with raster files, and fast. Using a PostScript printer
- requires conversion of the Sun raster files and it is slow dumping the
- large data to a PostScript printer over a serial port.
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- As an example, a file that I print at home takes about 15 minutes at 9600
- baud (19200 and 38400 fail on my system) and 30 seconds here at work.
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