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From: rberlin@birdland.sun.com (Rich Berlin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Need Sun based PostScript to Imagen 2308
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Date: 15 Nov 90 20:26:17 GMT
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brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes
> PostScript is PostScript.  There isn't a Sun based Unix PostScript.

Ouch--that hurts.  (Maybe I should go tell our marketing group they
didn't make enough noise.)  Oh, well, here goes:

Sun recently announced a product called NeWSprint; it's a PostScript
rip that runs on a Sun (SPARC) host.  Out-of-the-box, it supports HPII
series printers, SEIKO 5504/5514 color thermal wax printers, and the
SPARCprinter (a 300/400 dpi, 12ppm b&w laser printer).  It was
designed with the idea of making it easy to interface to a variety of
different printers (essentially, any printer that accepts bitmap data
as input).  NeWSprint comes with a developer's kit, and source code
for driving the printers I mentioned above is included with the
product, to make the job of interfacing to your printer easier.

I've already suggested it to John as a possible solution to his
problem.  And now I'm going to shut up, because I feel like I've
overstepped my bounds.  (I'm a software engineer, not a marketing
type, and this is a technical newsgroup....)  Apologies to anyone who
might have been offended.

-- Rich