It was a QuickDraw printer with a Canon engine. The quality is OK, but if you decide to print-out a PDF doc, or an image, expect to wait about 5 minutes per sheet.
I would have invested in the $2 000 printer. Better to take a nose-dive knowing that your printouts are good, and it won't take you forever to print your documents (and the fact that you can expand the memory at any given time).
It's funny how we have progressed. My Brother laser printer was only $400 (including taxes), it prints in "digital colour," has wireless/ethernet capabilities, comes with 64MB of memory (expandable to 500MB, or so), and the drum/fuser has a lifespan of approx. 25 000 pages (and of course, it's Postscript). The only disadvantage is it does not do double-sided printing, but considering the features this thing has (and the improvement in print-quality from a cheap, yet durable Canon i560 bubblejet & Epson C64), I am very impressed with this printer.