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Hardware Reviews July 1999 • Vol.10 Issue 7 |
Elite 12/600 | ||
 The GCC Technologies Elite 12/600 is full of surprises. It is a fully network-capable, $999 monochrome laser printer that weighs in at 30 pounds. It also has 8MB of RAM (upgradable to 64MB) without the support of the internal hard drives some printers use. This laser printer, designed for office environments, impressed us throughout our review. We printed 600 x 600 dots per inch (dpi) graphics ranging from a huge Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) photo image to PowerPoint slides to Word charts and graphics. All the images were stark and clean, and the JPEG photo even printed edge-to-edge. Text was exceptionally crisp across the board; even the low-quality draft-mode text was better than the high-quality setting of most inkjet printers. On our 12-page Word file test the Elite 12/600 turned in the best speed of 9.4 pages per minute (ppm), which would have exceeded the manufacturer's 12ppm mark if we had discounted the 20-second first-page delay. This is adequate speed in light of the quality of the output. The Elite 12/600 comes standard with 35 PostScript Level 2 fonts (45 more are downloadable) and 15 PCL-5 fonts. Besides regular letter-sized paper, it can tackle legal and A4 sizes, postcards, labels, transparencies, and envelopes. The 12/600's edge-to-edge printing capability maxes out at an 8.5- by 14- inch printable area. Its out-of-the-box networking capability supports 10Base-T Ethernet, Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), Local-Talk, and EtherTalk, along with the typical bi-directional parallel connection. Options include an extra 250-sheet universal paper tray ($129) and a 500-sheet second feeder attachment ($299). The Elite 12/600 is Year 2000-compliant and can print up to 20,000 pages per month. Its 6,000-page toner cartridges are only $114, with discounts for buying two or three at a time. And, under the one-year Platinum Exchange warranty, if you can't remedy any problems you have over the phone or via user-installed parts, then GCC will send you a replacement printer overnight. That is impressive service for a very impressive printer.  by Marty Sems
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