CompuServe Messages

James, One man's quality could well turn out another man's disaster! When Primera was first released here I looked at the unit and the price and thought to myself "This is too good to be true". It was! Firstly, the local Fargo dealer wanted to charge me to have "HIM" demo the product to us. All things considered, I decided to endure and chalk it up to experience. The machine was `sloooowww'! I'm willing to wait a while longer in lieu of producing quality, but the results where wholey unacceptable. Page after page (and all the while this dealer's oooing and aahing about the superior quality of the imagery!) the same outcome. As far as photo quality output; that's far-fetched! Our Calcomps out-perform the Primera, consistently. The bottom line is, you pay for what you get. We'll hold onto our Calcomps and color InkJets; for that photo quality in hardcopy output I'll look to the Tektronix. Even the best Primera copy doesn't come close to the worst Tek copy. As to the hoopla in various PC mags regarding the Primera peformance; sure, I'll admit that for some off the shelf applications it performs just fine. By and large though columnists don't enter the world of computer graphics, their forte is behind the keyboard and it's good advertising on the part of developers to send a few units their way. Simply, there are as many (if not more) color printers as there are different levels of quality. Maybe the next generation Primera ..<?>