My sister, a friend, and I went to a Sunnyvale computer dealer this weekend and
found that the mail-order houses listed in the back of MacWeek magazine are not
necessarily the lowest dealers, at least of QMS printers.  We went to M & P
Computers and Communications, 1270 Oakmead Parkway, Suite 111, Sunnyvale (tel.
738-8578).  Their regular price for the QMS PS-410 printer with one toner
cartridge is $1595.  Because they were buying two, the salesman lowered his
price to $1550 each, plus he threw in for free two AppleTalk cables worth $13
each.  The optional 200-sheet letter-size paper tray was an extra $150.

The MacWeek ads I've seen for this printer start at $1645, and continue at
$1699, $1749, and $1795.  I suppose you could find additional MacWeek advertis-
ers who didn't mention that printer specifically, but are QMS dealers, and who
might match that $1595 price.  In either case, M & P has a very extensive
collection of B&W printers, color printers from QMS, Seiko, and Tektronix,
computers (but not Macs), etc.  Their software was very competitively priced,
e.g., QuarkXPress for the Mac was $525 (mail order houses typically bottom out
at $519).

By the way, the QMS PS-410 (of which we have around 10) has three constantly
active interfaces: serial, parallel, and AppleTalk, so it works with virtually
all computers.
                                  FYI,     Andrea