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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: What is a SparcPrinter
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Date: 29 Jan 91 17:24:43 GMT
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In article <12317@sundc.East.Sun.COM> jback@trine.East.Sun.COM writes:
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<The Sparcprinter is manufactured by Sun Microsystems, Inc. , and costs
<~$2600 (before edu discounts, etc are taken into account).  I've no idea
<what version of Postscript it supports, but I'd surmise that since it
<was just introduced ~2 months ago it is a fairly recent version.  We
<have one of these in our Columbia, MD office, and it is quite nice - and
<at 12+ ppm is quick too..

The SparcPrinter is nothing but an engine with no printer language smarts.
It is part of the NeWSprint software for the Sun Sparc Workstations.  The
PostScript emulation is done on the Sparc and the results sent to the printer.
There are other emulations provided as well.  We don't have ours yet, so I
can't go into further details.
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