April 1997 / BYTE Hardware Lab Report

Seven Fast Color Printers Inside a Color Printer	These midrange printers, though still pricey, give you business-quality color without trading off performance. - by Dorothy Hudson and Dave Rowell
Best Overall: Color Laser Printers	Performance is important for these fastest of color printers, but not as important as print quality, a past concern with color lasers.
Color Laser Printers Ratings Best Overall: IBM Network Color Printer Best High Quality: Tektronix Phaser 350 IBM Network Color Printer IBM Network Color Printer Tektronix Phaser 350
Details Not a Laser Easy as It Gets Not So Easy	Not a Laser: As a solid-ink printer, the Tektronix Phaser 350 is easier by far than a color laser to set up and manage.
Manufacturing Color Different Approaches to Color	For color printing, the ability to produce a large number of apparent colors is just a s important as high resolution for producing realistic color images and smoothly shaded graphics.
Test Specs Printer Quality Test Collage	We rated color laser printers based on print quality (40%), performance (26%), features (12%), usability (12%), price (6%), and technological innovation (4%) (on a scale of one to five stars, except for price).

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