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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: An interesting idea...
Message-ID: <3052.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 4 May 91 01:57:34 GMT
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Quoted from <927Gd92+1@cs.psu.edu> by melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger):
> In article <927@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM> dltaylor@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Dan Taylor) writes:

>    Just seems a LOT more logical to let the printer do its own work,

> Well, you have a choice.  Spend $$$ and get the extra hardware, or buy

    It _is_ better to have the printer doing the work. I thought that
    was the main advantage of Postscript, that you could get printers to
    do lots of the grunt work for you. Otherwise, why not use TeX for
    document preparation?

> -Mike
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