AMSOFT on DISK

From: Jim Strickland <jim_at_calico.litterbox.com>
Date: Sun Mar 7 19:29:04 1999

*nod* Ours were well into the million pages throughput. This was a college
housing department, and we were running ALLIN1 desktop on our vaxcluster so
an obscene amount of printing fell to our 2 LN03s (one per floor of the
admin building). And yes again, the one that overheated DID have a fan
motor problem. The fact that they stood up to this constant abuse speaks
well of them, to be honest. And actually since I know the vaxcluster is
still
in place at that site (I ping it from time to time out of curiosity) I
shouldn't be surprised if
those printers are still there, 6 years later.



><Nice enough laser printers for their day, but they tend to overheat, if
><memory serves. If you get one, make SURE the fan works. Check. I seem
><to recall we had problems with those on a Vax site I worked on once.
>
>Only if the fans are missing or dead. I was part of that design team and
>overheating was never a problem. The most common problem was a printer
>designed for an peak use of 5,000 pages a month being used as a line
>printer. They get a bit tired and cranky if they werent kept clean and
>get over a million pages on them. Inshort they were commonly abused.
>
>Oh, one note... there are about 5 versions of the printer depeinding on the
>logic (ansi, enhanced ansi, postscript, postscript/ansi hybrid, video
engine
><part of QPSS package>).
>
>Oh the launch date is 1984 and production continued through 90-91 (memory
>test).
>
>
>Allison
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