.sh PRINTERS One of the most exciting developments in the area of printers is the availability of desk top laser printers. This paper was printed on an Imagen laser printer we have been using, quite successfully, for several months now. The Imagen offers high resolution (240 dots/inch), uses plain paper, and seems to require minimal hardware maintenance. It is interfaced to one of our VAXes via a 19.2 Kbaud RS-232 line although a parallel interface is also available. .LP Among the problems with the Imagen are the small number of available fonts and the incompleteness of some of those which are available. In addition, the Cannon LBP-10 printing engine used has only a 200 sheet paper tray. Since the unit employs a wet process Xerography and smells a bit, it is not located in the same room as a person who might be responsible for refilling the tray. This inevitably results in print jobs backing up in a long queue until someone notices paper is needed. The Imagen folks were initially TEX oriented and their \fItroff\fP support contains glitches which are purported to go away with future releases of the software. We also hope to eventually interface our printer directly to the Ethernet; as soon as Imagen provides the necessary software to do so. .LP Another laser printer based on the Canon LBP-10 engine is produced by Symbolics. Symbolics offers both RS-232 and parallel interfaces to the printer. The Symbolics software is known to provide excellent software support for \fItroff\fP. We are are now evaluating a Symbolics printer. .LP QMS in Georgia has apparently solved the mysteries of the Xerox 2700 printer and is distributing an OEM version which might be a good choice. The major potential advantages here have to do with Xerox's size and extensive field support. The unit is dry process (unlike the Imagen and Symbolics) and has 300 dots/inch resolution. With any luck, we will also be evaluating this unit soon. .LP We have been using some Printronix 300 and 600 line per minute dot-matrix printers. The Printronix printers do point-plotting at 60 points per inch. They are not outstandingly cheap, but are ruggedly built. .LP The new Data Products B-600-1 is a 600 LPM band printer. We have one and are buying another. Although we had some initial problems getting the first unit into service, it now runs reliably and is our heaviest usage production printer.