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Article: Tektronix Phaser 850.(color laser printer)(Product Announcement)
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- Australian PC World
- Article date:
- May 1, 2000
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COLOUR LASER PRINTER
Tektronix's newest laser printer, the Phaser 850, really tears through colour documents: for graphics, it managed 2.4 pages per minute -- double the average for current colour lasers. It loses its lead when printing plain text: at 6.8 ppm, it's a half-page per minute slower than the average colour laser.
The output quality of the shipping unit was also mixed. The 850's even, clean black text and its bright, accurate colours on non-photographic images were good, but colour photos were dark and grainy (although quality improves on the enhanced setting).
The Phaser 850 uses crayon-like blocks of resin-based ink instead of the ...