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From: robert@jetsun.weitek.COM (Robert Plamondon)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: What is a SparcPrinter
Message-ID: <1991Feb1.202128.9238@jetsun.weitek.COM>
Date: 1 Feb 91 20:21:28 GMT
References: <1991Jan25.084804.26979@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <12317@sundc.East.Sun.COM> <1991Jan30.163356.18006@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Reply-To: robert@hemingway.WEITEK.COM (Robert Plamondon)
Organization: WEITEK, Sunnyvale CA
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I have Sun's brochure on the SPARCprinter.  The printer itself is a
"dumb" printer -- no processor, no memory, just a high-speed interface
to an S-Bus card that plugs into the workstation.

The PostScript interpreter runs on the SPARCstation itself, creating
a page map that is then sent to the printer in real time, through the
high-speed interface.  This minimizes the printer's cost by using
the processor and memory in the workstation (which you have anyway),
rather than putting a processor and memory in the printer.

I was disappointed by the lack of Adobe Type 1 font support, and have
no idea how faithful Sun's PostScript clone is.  I'm particularly
interested in how well the SPARCprinter does when used with Interleaf
TPS.  Has anyone tried it?

	-- Robert
-- 
    Robert Plamondon
    robert@weitek.COM