Durst ACS 5012 N - LSC Printer (not mine, NY)

I'm guessing it's an analog printer that prints on roll paper. Ran into this by coincidence, can be had for $0.99. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Durst-ACS-5012-N-LSC-Printer/223215999309

Thought someone might be interested given these beasts used to cost tens of thousands.

Film format up to 4x5" (what seemingly is not the case with this sample, and doubtful anyway)

Print size up to 12x18"

Similar to the slightly smaller printer I used at work back in the 1970s. Mine probably maxed out at 6x7 negatives. It was great for proofs and machine enlargements.
If you have a roller transport RA4 processor that can take rolls, with this you will be ready for volume!

But who would print 4x5 negatives on such printer?

Anyway, interesting to learn of some unknown Durst apparatus.

Who? Maybe a wedding photographer, who has a group shot on 4x5 and sold 2 custom 20x24 prints with frames and a "package" with 50 8x10 prints, 100 5x7s, and 250 wallet-size.

Edited to add caveat: I am not a wedding photographer.

Over here in the days of that printer there were no wedding photographers using 4x5...

The price would be no problem to me, and if it were rather local I could hire transport.
But... how to smuggle that beast into the house? And sooner or later it would be detected anyway and then one would need good arguments...

And what use would if have to us unless doing large series?

That was probably a stretch. Though I did know a wedding photographer who shot 6x7 (he claimed he was the only one in his area, which makes me think he wasn't), which is a different animal. Though if you were the owner of this machine, you are probably a lab who uses this machine to pay the bills on smaller formats and print 4x5 for the oddball customer. I figure it wouldn't be that uncommon if you're processing 4x5 for people for them to want contact prints for their 4x5 C41s (though technically this machine would do optical prints to 4x5, not contact prints)

The photographer I worked with when I was doing colour printing offered both commercial photography and printing services to other professional photographers. I did most of the machine printing, and he did most of the custom enlarging.
One of his best customers was a chain of restaurants. He had shot (on 4"x5" colour negative) photographs of each menu item showing the preferred layout of the food items on the plate. Each kitchen in the chain needed a full set of those photos for their food styling manual. Every time a new location opened, or an existing location's photos suffered some deterioration (restaurant kitchens aren't the best places for colour prints) my colleague would receive an order for another set of 8x10s from his negatives.
If our machine printer had been big enough, we could have used it, and made more money.
4"x5" film is/was used for volume work too.
By the way, you can switch formats on those machines without taking out the roll of paper. You just need to be able to change the lens in the dark.

whoa, i'm in NY next week - i'll be 4 miles from mt kisco... maybe i can get this in my suitcase?????