Genicom, Kyocera Show New Printers at Comdex
 
Copyright (c) 1989, McGraw-Hill, Inc.
LAS VEGAS (Microbytes Daily News Service) --- A few printers of
note made their debut at Comdex this week. Genicom, for example,
introduced its Model 3405. This 80-column desktop printer can
print at 400 cps (characters per second) in draft mode and 100
cps in near-letter-quality mode. It comes with two resident fonts
and emulates the IBM Proprinter and ANSI X3.
 
The 3405 lists for $1795 and will be available in the first
quarter of 1990, the company said.
 
Genicom also introduced the 3840, a high-volume 600-cps printer
for data processing applications. It lists for $2795 and will
also be available in the first quarter, the firm said. Both
models include automatic paper parking and zero-inch forms
tear-off.
 
Kyocera announced two new laser printers in its F-series family.
The F-800A, available now, is a low-end model for single-user
applications that prints at 8 ppm (pages per minute) and lists
for $2295. The F-2000A, intended for small networked workgroups,
contains a 68020 chip and prints at 10 ppm. It will be available
in December for $4695, the company said.
 
Kyocera claims that all F series printers emulate HP LaserJet,
Epson FX-80, and IBM graphics printers, among others, with op-
tional support for Apple QuickDraw. They have 79 resident bit-
mapped fonts, accept downloaded fonts, and support a Kyocera
PostScript PDL clone called Prescribe. The F-800A comes with 512K
RAM and the F-2000A with 1M byte, both expandable in units of 1,
2, or 4 megabytes. Kyocera manufactures its own printer engines.
 
                              --- Andy Reinhardt
 
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