Mitsubishi Electronics America Inc, Torrance, California has two new high-resolution desk-top colour thermal printers, the S340-10 sublimation thermal printer and the G370-10 thermal transfer printer, for use with MS-DOS and Apple Macintosh II computers. They take up to four different paper or transparency film sizes – letter, legal and special A, A4 – and are measure 11.3 by 16.9 by 23.2 deep. The G370-10 300 dot-per-inch thermal transfer printer uses sequential overprinting and colour mixture techniques to produce high-resolution graphics in seven colours. An A-size 8.5 by 11 image can be printed in about a minute using a three-colour ink sheet, and costs $6,000. The S340-10 sublimation thermal printer is designed to produce near-photographic quality colour prints for graphic design and medical or scientific imaging. The 150 dot-per-inch printer uses continuous-tone, rather than a dithering technique, to print images, and the thing can print up to 16.7m colours depending on the software and hardware controllers used. It includes a 6Mb page buffer, and a full-colour letter-size page takes about 100 seconds. It sells for $14,000.
