>I have no basis other than limited experience with a Laserwriter Pro 630, >(no book larnin or nuthin) but this machine turns out startlingly good print >at 600 dpi. I have it on my Lan via ethernet.
The first 600 dpi marking engine for use in a "true Adobe PostScript" printer was produced by one of the photocopier manufacturers. This was a selenium drum machine, not an "organic photoconductor cylinder" (OPC) machine such as Canon's printers. That early 600 dpi effort was aimed at the pre-press market, and it cost a bundle. More than $22,500, IIRC, and there was a required monthly maintenance contract, which also cost a bundle. The Pro 630 could do better, and it cost about one-tenth the price of the selenium drum machine. The Pro 630 also had a very good PostScript engine, easily faster and better than the selenium drum machine. Both 600 dpi machines supported a font cache hard drive, and both could utilize Adobe's "Font Folio" product, which itself held all of Adobe's then current PostScript fonts, and cost $10,000 for what was essentially just a Quantum Pro 105S hard drive, an off-short case and power supply, 200 "unlocked" fonts pre-installed on the drive, and a stick-on label which was the font library's perpetual license. The 16/600 PS is a better printer than the Pro 630, not on account of its faster printing speed, which was rarely attained in pre-press applications, but mainly on account of its exceptionally fast AMD 29000 RISC-based I/O board (first "proved" in the Personal LW NTR), and also on account of the capability to mount the font cache hard drive internally. The exceptionally rare 16/600 PS-J, the Japanese version of the 16/600 PS, comes with a font cache hard drive factory installed, and is a very good catch, should one be lucky enough to find one for sale in this country. Long before I got DSL installed, which itself necessitated a conversion to ethernet, I converted to e-net on account of faster PostScript printing. The conversion to DSL was accomplished quickly and painlessly, as the printer had already paved the way for an all-e-net shop. -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
