Eastman Kodak Co of Mountain View, California has announced that the new Kodak Ektaplus 7016 printer operates at 16 pages-per-minute and simultaneously serves up to four users or four networks of Apple Macintosh and MS-DOS-based computers: it is claimed to be the first multi-function network printer to incorporate Adobe’s PostScript software, and it is available in two models; the 7016PS incorporates Adobe’s PostScript software as a standard feature, and the Ektaplus 7016 offers PostScript as an option; users who purchase PostScript can also equip the printer with an AppleTalk interface, which enables it to sit on an AppleTalk network; the 7016 printer incorporates parallel processing to speed throughput of PostScript language files, and the primary processor is dedicated to overhead functions while the more powerful secondary processor completes PostScript compilation; Ektaplus 7016 can be shared on a variety of networks and the PostScript board includes a Motorola 68020 processor plus 4Mb of random access memory, while the basic printer contains a Motorola 68010 processor and 2 megabytes of random access memory.
