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From: oneill@fornax.UUCP (Richard Oneill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: PostScript output on Epson FX/LX/LQ via NeXT PostScipt interpreter ?
Message-ID: <2172@fornax.UUCP>
Date: 21 Feb 91 20:11:34 GMT
References: PostScript, Printers, Imaging, Epson, Chalenge
Reply-To: oneill@fornax.UUCP (Richard O'Neill)
Organization: School of Computing Science, SFU, Burnaby, B.C. Canada
Lines: 19

I'm sure there are plenty of us out there who have a NeXT and some old dot
matrix printer and who can't afford NeXT's laser printer. It seems to me
theoretically possible to get PostScript copy out of such a printer,
since the NeXT can do PostScript -> Bitmap (at some level) and the printer
can do Bitmap -> Output. 

Has anyone turned this theory into practice? Is anyone working on it?

I did hear some talk about something like this (driving an ImageWriter
??), but the topic seemed to fade away inconclusively. I would think
that if such a printer driver is feasible, most of it could be done in
a printer independant way (personally I'd like a driver for Epson
compatible printers).

I'd be happy to contribute time, effort, money etc to any team/person 
who would write such a driver. I am convinced that a driver for postscript
on any printer that can do bitmap images would have an instant market.

	Richard.


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