December 1996 / BYTE Hardware Lab Report

Six Laser Printers for Workgroups Laser Printers	These network lasers have the speed and capacity to handle the printing needs of any large workgroup. - by Dorothy Hudson, Jim Kane, and John McDonough
Workgroup Printers HP Makes a Mopier HP's New Mopier	Network administrators have many choices when picking a workgroup laser printer.
Workgroup Printer Ratings Best Overall: Lexmark Optra N245 Best for High Quality: Xerox DocuPrint 4517 Best for Macintosh: QMS 2425Ex Print System Lexmark Optra N245 Xerox DocuPrint 4517 QMS 2425Ex Print System
Details Locked Slots for Privacy No Tooltime Necessary Size by Choice	Privacy, Please: You can get the Xerox and IBM printers equipped with an optional 10-bin locking mailbox/collator to secure private documents.
Printing Continuous Forms on a Laser Continuous and Quiet	One good reason dot-matrix printers survive in the market is that they can print on continuous-form paper.
Test Specs	We picked the best network printers by running performance tests that evaluate a unit's top pages-per-minute print speed at standard (600- by 600-dpi) resolution.
More for Your Memory	One of the costs of increasing printer resolution comes from needing more memory to represent the page image.

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