London-based controller developer Pacific Semiconductor (Europe) Ltd has introduced its new Laserboost board that it says can radically improve the performance of Canon Inc SX, RX and TX-based laser printers like the LaserJet II and III, Brother HL8E and Canon LBP8II for a fraction of the cost of a new machine: the board takes only 15 minutes to install and costs just UKP380; it features Hewlett-Packard Co PCL 5 printer language, eight scalable fonts, a 20MHz 68020 processor, proprietary ASICs and Direct Memory Access through the parallel port; it also has from 2Mb of memory, one independent and two parallel ports, offering HP7475A plotter emulation.
