[SunRescue] good news

[GregA.Woodswoods at weird.com]

[ On Monday, October 2, 2000 at 07:52:43 (-0400), Ken Hansen wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] good news
>
> Side note - who ever thought it was a great idea to blend copiers and
> printers into one unit? Most desktop printers work so well because they are
> so simple, add all that "copier crap" and you start to develop a new
> friendship with the copier repair man... Many offices have copier repair
> men, but no one has a printer repair man (AFAIK)...

What you need is not a single box that has all the different units
jammed into it, but rather a well integrated unit that has a scanner and
a printer and maybe a fax modem and which copies by scanning and printing.

>From an engineering point of view it's a damn good idea.  Reuse all
those very expensive moving components in as many ways as possible.

It also means that if you need redundancy then two such units will give
you redundancy and load sharing on all fronts at once.

Of course all of the half-decent peripherals, including single-purpose
units, are all classified as "workgroup" devices and as such cost as
much as the market will possibly bear.

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