All the main manufacturers in "the good old days" had top of the line impact printers of about 1200 lpm +/- a bit. The ICL (then ICT) 1905 when I started work had an Analex 1200 lpm drum printer - and this got transferred to a PDP-11/20 (courtesy of some clever work by our chief engineer) when the 1905 was replaced by a 1905E. The ICL 1905E had a model 1933 (ICL number - don't know who made it really) printer that was of similar spec. ISTR that in the same era the top IBM printer was a train printer that worked at 1100 lpm with a 64-character set or 1400 with a 48. Cannot remember what printers we had when we moved onto the Honeywell - think they were a pair of 1200 lpm train printers (by then we wanted a 96-character set) I don't think there were faster impact* printers available - most non-university sites preferred to go for multiple printers as a 1200 lpm device got through paper _fast_ and kept operators busy reloading. * we heard stories of the big mail-order companies having extremely fast (and extremely large!) printers from Xerox that not-infrequently caught fire if they had a paper jam, but were still cost-effective because of the speed when they _were_ working. Loading the paper on these devices aparrently required mechanical assistance as the roll (not box) was so heavy. Andy