Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!chinacat!woody
From: woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Saving forms to PS printer disk
Summary: that's impressive.
Keywords: Postscript, disk cache
Message-ID: <1374@chinacat.Unicom.COM>
Date: 1 Jul 90 02:29:04 GMT
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In article <601@enint.Wichita.NCR.COM>, hburford@enint.Wichita.NCR.COM (Harry Burford) writes:
> woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal) writes:
> 
> 
> >Don Lancaster is currently doing this. He welcomes calls, and prints his
> >phone number in the Computer Shopper.  602-428-4073.
> >Don is a well known author, and has really been working rather diligently
> >on "book on demand" printing.  I think that the last time I talked to him,
> 
> The day of the SCSI printer is TODAY!    NCR demonstrated their 
> 6436 SCSI printer at both Spring/COMDEX '90 and PC/Expo.  The printer
> Carriage return to page in hand time was about 20 seconds.   This
> included the 13 seconds for the engine to go off idle and move the 
> paper thru.   Page size was 630K!
That's impressive, but was it POSTSCRIPT, or a bit map.

I'm really refering to taking a generic Postscript laser printer that
has a hard disk with a SCSI connection, and either replacing the
harddisk with a computer/harddisk combination, that makes the computer
look  like the SCSI harddisk, such that the laser thinks it is talking
the the hard disk, when in fact it is talking to the computer, which is
feeding it data from a hard disk, worm disk, or application.
Or, setting things up such that a PC can read and write the Laser printer's
hard disk as if it were a normal SCSI hard disk for the computer, and
allowing the laser to access the hard disk normaly, i.e. using the hard
disk as sort of a buffer to the laser.  As I said, Don is working on the latter
part of this, and has most of it working, though there are bugs still.

Cheers
Woody