Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!crdgw1!barnett From: barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: new NeXTs as PostScript engines? Message-ID: Date: 3 Oct 90 16:22:35 GMT References: <1990Sep28.213733.26340@Neon.Stanford.EDU> <859@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.ge.com Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 41 In-reply-to: hudgens@sun13.scri.fsu.edu's message of 1 Oct 90 04:04:23 GMT In article <859@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> hudgens@sun13.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Hudgens) writes: > The other half of Sun's new open printing solution, SPARCprinter [...] > I think list on this is $2700 or so, with the software at $500. > Discounts could get that down to $2000 or so. > It's not really comparable to the above prices (for NeXT), > I know, and not really that good a deal in comparison to a > NEC890 or the new TI postscript printer. > But has anyone seen one of these? Any opinions? I haven't seen anything. Just read the blurbs. What they say: "Performance can also soar. In a demonstration, the SparcStation/Sparc-Printer combination finished printing a complex nine-page document before the Macintosh IIfx/LaserWriter II NTX could begin printing a second page." - Infoword Oct. 1 Pg. 28 Can the other printers in this price range compete in the page per minute? The SparcPrinter seems worthwile - if you happen to have a spare SparcStation lying around. Also, this is a PostScript Clone. the 35 LW+ fonts are included along with 22 other fonts. Have no idea how much extra fonts costs. Don't know if you can download Type 1 fonts from a Mac. I seem to recall saving an article posted to comp.windows.news that was a simple version of NeWSPrint. It just rendered a PostScript image to memory and did a bitmap transfer to a file. Re: the NeWSPrint package - current printers supported are HP LaserJets/DeskJets, Seiko CH 5504 and 5514 color printers. Future printers supported are laser printers from Epson, Fujitsu, Xerox, Talaris, ink-jet printers from Canon, Epson, and Kodak, color thermal printers from Raster Graphics and Versatec, and ion deposition printers from Talaris. -- Bruce G. Barnett barnett@crd.ge.com uunet!crdgw1!barnett