The new marker speed for desktop laser printers is 32 pages per minute, offered by a new high-speed QMS-PS 3200 network printer from QMS Inc, Mobile, Alabama. The PS 3200 is designed to lower printing costs by serving 40 to 60 users in homogeneous or mixed computing environments. It supports 11 by 17 and can print on both sides of the page. The PostScript printer implements QMS’s Crown architecture, which offers printer multi-tasking, direct connection to most popular computer networks, four simultaneously active interfaces, printer-resident job spooling, printer-resident emulation switching and automatic error recovery. The controller uses an LSI Logic Corp RPM3310 Ngine processor module, based on the MIPS R3000 RISC: clocked at 25MHz, it integrates the LR3000 and LR3010 processor family with instruction and data cache, clock generation and a read-write buffer. The optional network interfaces are Ethernet and Token-Ring network and the printer supports NetWare, TCP/IP and DECnet protocols. It has 16Mb standard, and can take a 40Mb or 120Mb disk and up to six external SCSI disks for spooling, font caching and page memory capabilities; it has 45 resident Type 1 PostScript fonts and Hewlett-Packard Co PCL IV and GL 7550 emulation; it’s $20,000, now.
