Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!exodus!vector.Eng.Sun.COM!poynton From: poynton@vector.Eng.Sun.COM (Charles A. Poynton) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: What is a SparcPrinter Summary: SPARCprinter uses Sun NeWSprint software RIP. Message-ID: <6812@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 29 Jan 91 06:12:54 GMT References: <1991Jan25.084804.26979@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <12317@sundc.East.Sun.COM> Sender: news@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM Reply-To: poynton@sun.com (Charles A. Poynton) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 27 In article <1991Jan25.084804.26979@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, umross27@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Christopher Winston Ross) asks: > ... about the SparcPrinter ... What version of Adobe Postscript is it running? I was waiting for an expert to answer this question, but ... "SPARCprinter" in the broad sense refers to the SPARCprinter laser printer -- which itself contains little intelligence -- and the PostScript(R)-language compatible NeWSprint software RIP running on the host SPARC machine. The NeWSprint RIP is derived from the interpreter that James Gosling originally wrote for the NeWS window system. It will drive a wide variety of printers including ... well, let's not get commercial, but it's been demonstrated with ink jet, dot matrix, thermal transfer, electrostatic etc. It has no Adobe interpreter. C. ----- Charles A. Poynton Sun Microsystems Inc. vox 415-336-7846 2550 Garcia Avenue, MTV21-10 fax 415-969-9131 Mountain View, CA 94043 U.S.A. -----