>  Steve Bagley  wrote=20
 
>Incidently we have just had a salesman in showing us the tektronix
>range of printers. The Phaser 220 colour printer seems affordable
>with near photographic quality (but not quite) - and there is a
>network version.
>
>hope this has helped,
>
         We have recently bought a Kodak Colorease and are very impressed=20
with the quality of the output. You are hard pressed to tell the difference=
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between confocal images that we have shot onto colour slide film, using a=20
polaroid CL 5000 slide maker, developed then printed  as compared to images=
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printed with the Kodak colourease. We reckon that the cost per A4 page is=20
about =A31.38 and that often allows us to get two or three images per page.=
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Saves me a lot of mucking about in the dark room.  We are also finding many=
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users are scanning gels, westerns, southerns and autoradiaographs then=20
printing them out fully labeled on the colourease.=20
        The colourease sits very nicely on our network and appears to be=20
very reliable, with images being sent from both PCs and MACs. However the=20
time to print more complex images eg a composite of six full colour confocal=
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images on one page with figure legends can be considerable, up to 60 mins.=
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However once these images are sent from the PCs, generally taking 5-10 mins=
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, they sit on the file server waiting to be printed off.
 
 
        Peter
 
 
Peter Mchardy,
Dept. Medical Oncology,
Glasgow University,
Alexander Stone Building,
Garscube Estate,
Switchback Road,
Bearsden,
Glasgow
G61 1BD
Tel No. 041-339 8855 ext 6872    Fax No. 041-330 4127