Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!bunker!wtm From: campbell%hpdmd48@hplabs.HP.COM (Gary Campbell) Newsgroups: misc.handicap Subject: Re: new Braille printer introduced Message-ID: <13383@bunker.UUCP> Date: 10 Aug 90 02:18:21 GMT Sender: wtm@bunker.UUCP Reply-To: campbell%hpdmd48@hplabs.HP.COM (Gary Campbell) Distribution: misc Lines: 229 Approved: wtm@bunker.UUCP Fidonet: None Index Number: 9711 Here is a brochure I received a month or so ago in the mail along with a letter, a braille sample, and some other samples. I know that the brochure is hipe, but I think it does give some answers to some questions asked here, even though it doesn't discuss the braille aspect of the machine. This material was scanned with a TrueScan Model S and a ScanJet set for decolumnized ASCII (don't think it was actually needed) and "darken". I left the scan uncorrected so you could see what it is like. The TrueScan marks scanning errors with a star (*). It also checks words against some kind of dictionary, and marks words it doesn't recognize as errors even though they scan okay, so it will flag Pixelmaster every time it occurs. [Note from Bill McGarry: I did some re-formatting where lines were over 80 characters long.] I have no connection with Howtek (except that I'm on somebody's mailing list!). Neither am I connected with Callera, the manufacturer of TrueScan. *Pixelmaster Introducing *Pixelmaster *Pixelmaster is a full capability color printer that delivers brilliant colors, high resolution, *integruted text and images, on any standard office paper, at an affordable price. Up to 262,000 different colors can be printed. *PostScript language, *QuickDraw, and Windows compatible, the *Pixelmaster operates with virtually all computers. This versatile color printer is ideal for applications in: *n *Desktop Publishing *n Business Graphics/Presentations *2 Graphic Arts/Design and Imaging *n Computer Aided Design T*he *Pirelmaster *uorking in conjunction *udth a *Howtek *Ranner provides the input and output tools *nece&aryfor a Total Color *Sokaion. How It Works *Pixelmaster is designed around *Thermogetr" Technology - a highly efficient method of placing dots on paper. This technology brings together important developments in ink, *VlSl electronics, and precision mechanical components. *T'he *Pixelmaster creates quality text and full-color images by placing thousands of colored ink dots on the paper's surface. Specially developed plastic inks are heated to liquid form and stored in individual color reservoirs in the rotating print head. As the paper flows by, a proprietary highly accurate and reliable head mechanism jets the plastic ink onto the paper. 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The *Pixelmaster can produce high quality color output on your company letterhead for a fraction of the cost of other color printers. *Pixelmaster is compatible with virtually any computer. Now *PostScript' language, *QuickDraw," Windows"' HP-PCL and *HPGL plotter compatible, you can create stunning full color proposals, presentations, or designs. *'Mirty-five professional quality fonts are supported with an infinite number of point sizes, through an intelligent font scaling system. Only *Pixelmaster Offers So Much Print Quality - Brilliant color graphics can be merged with crisp dense text producing a professional quality document. Accepts All Papers - No need to purchase special or computer fan fold paper for the *Pixelmaster. it works with papers already found in today's office from copier paper, to quality bond or letterhead. Affordability - *The *Pixelmaster's price/performance level is superior to any color printer on the market today. 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Applications *Desktop Publishing Create eye catching communications to announce a big corporate event or publish your company newsletter in full color, merging life like images with crisp dense text. Make those training manuals easier to read by incorporating color. Be creative using the *desktop application packages you are currently working with! Presentations Dazzle the board, present your next corporate report in full color. No need to include flimsy special paper printouts in your documents. The *Pixelmaster will effortlessly place those soaring sales charts on your top quality bond paper in living color. include color *pictures scanned into your system with the *Howtek *Scanmaster fa*mily to add that special "not available anywhere else" stamp on your next proposal. Graphic Design The *Pixelmaster is perfect for Graphic Arts houses wanting a reasonably priced color proofing device. Create stunning color *comps, with t*ext that exceeds existing standards. impress that client with the tightest possible *comp you could make. Moving from the comp stage to the final mechanical stage is simple ... it's already in your computer! Computer Aided Design Present your clients with clean, bright and accurate full color renderings of your designs directly from the leading edge *CAD applications you're already working with. The *Pixelmaster's full range of 262,000 colors offers realistic renderings from applications which support solid shading. Only *Pixelmaster offers all the most desirable features in a computer printer. Full color, quality text, system compatibility across the board, total versatility and reliability. Quiet, compact, reliable, and economical. In a word, Value. *Pixelmaster. It's t*he name to remember in *colorprinters. SPECIFICATIONS General Size 37.5*' (H) x