LaserPrinter            300 dpi, 10 ppm laser printer
New IBM LaserPrinter Does 10 PPM, Emulates HP
 
Microbytes Daily News Service
Copyright (c) 1989, McGraw-Hill, Inc.
IBM's LaserPrinter, which emulates the HP PCL language, operates
at 10 pages per minute, generates 300 dots per inch, and comes
with 10 resident fonts. IBM promises a PostScript emulator for
early this year.
 
The new printer will operate with almost any software that
supports the IBM Proprinter, Proprinter XL, and Quietwriter, as
well as the IBM 7372 and Hewlett-Package 7475A plotters, the
company says.
 
For more typefaces and international characters, there are 47
optional credit-card-size font cards, which can hold up to 26
additional typestyles each, and 12 downloadable font packages.
Print cartridges for the new model will produce up to 10,000
pages before being replaced, IBM says.
 
The LaserPrinter comes with 512K bytes of memory. Additional
memory upgrades are available in 1, 2, or 3.5 megabytes to allow
the printer to make full use of its graphics capabilities. The
printer has both parallel and RS-232C serial interfaces.
 
Price: $2595; print cartridges, $199; 1, 2, and 3.5-megabytes of
RAM, $499, $899, and $1599.
 
Contact: IBM, 740 New Circle Rd., Lexington, KY 40511,
(606) 232-3934.
 
                              --- Roger K. Adams
 
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