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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
Subject: Re: Dumb Laser Printers
In-Reply-To: sjcst2@unix.cis.pitt.edu's message of 30 Apr 91 08:02:54 GMT
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In article <122170@unix.cis.pitt.edu> sjcst2@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Scott J. Corley) writes:

   Mike , I hate to break this to you but Atari's been offering a dumb laser
   printer (no memory , no CPU) for use with their Atari ST since 1987. Next
   didnt invent the idea of using the computer's CPU and memory do the work
   necessary to print pages.

I never said that they did invent it, and I never said that it was a
great idea.  But is very economical.  At $1795($1295) NeXT is probably
making a bit of a profit since they don't have to pay Adobe royalties.
Last year someone pointed out that you could buy a NeXTstation and a
LaserPrinter for the price of an Apple NTX.  I'm not sure if this
still holds, but that did put things in perspective for some Macintoy
owners.  Ideally, I would want a CPU for everything, but NeXT does
have to make a profit and hardware cost money.

-Mike



