Laser output at 600
The Christchurch service for desktop publishers improves every week. Last Tuesday, we reported about the Linotronic and Compugraphic services available for Christchurch microcomputer users. Another service has come to light: Type Shop, of 311 Montreal Street. Cliff Strange, an experienced typographer, and Clare Harris, a graphic artist, are offering a bureau-type service with a Varityper VT6OO that outputs at 600 dots per inch (the typical microcomputer’s laser printer has output at 300 dots per inch), '
They use Apple microcomputers, a Macintosh II and a Macintosh SE, and run Post Script, Adobe Illustrator, and Microsoft Word chiefly. The Varityper itself has a 20Mb hard disk on which the pair store 104 fonts. Printers are the main customers. The price of the service is $5 a page for up to 10 pages and $3 a page for the eleventh and succeeding pages. The output is on plain paper, whereas the Linotronic and the Compugraphic use photographic-type paper. The Varityper prints A 4 pages.
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