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From: ne201ph@prism.gatech.EDU (Halvorson,Peter J)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Update on SPARCprinter/NeWSprint resolution problem
Message-ID: <25756@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 7 Apr 91 20:15:35 GMT
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In article <1991Apr7.020109.11882@rodan.acs.syr.edu> amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen) writes:
>
>   I disagree on both points.  The more postscript code is 'handled' the more
>problems there will always be with it.  There are several risc postscript
>processing cards for different print engines (most noteably is the HP's).
>The increase in performance is intense. 
>
>-- 
>Al. Michielsen, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Syracuse University

Check out the prices on these risc card equiped postscript printers.  The
educational price on the SPARCprinter ( equal to other companies list prices)
is $1700.  This is for a 12 ppm ( real throughput), 400 dpi printer.  I'm 
sure that the cards you mention must add up to more than $5000 for a 
similar printer.  The software is buggy, as is almost any first release.
Sun is already doing News ( screen postscript), so it must have seemed
like a small job to extend it to dumping rasters to a printer.


              Peter Halvorson   --    Nuclear Engineering Program
          Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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