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Which Laser Printer?

    06-Aug-91 16:51:51
Sb: Which Laser Printer?
Fm: Allen Mitts 75216,1236
To: Syndesis 76004,1763
John, I've got my Amiga and Mac hooked up to a brand new QMS-PS 410 and I really like it. It's not as quiet as my DeskJet Plus, but … 🙂 Just found out that a Mac program called "Smart Art" won't work with it (sigh). Smart Art needs a subset of Postscript called "bitsback" and non of the new printers have that. If you are interested in running that program (on your Mac) you may want to look at an old (slightly) Postscript printer. In terms of handling my Amiga and Mac together, I've had no problems at all. Only joys so far (outside of Smart Art). Hope that helps… Oh… the 410 has 1 serial, 1 parallel and 1 Apple interface. So, you would have to deal with that in order to hook all three (IBM, Mac, Amiga). You might want to consider extra memory so that you can increase its input buffer memory to hold jobs from all three simultaniously (comes standard with 2 megs). Regards, Allen