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From: laser-lovers@uw-beaver (laser-lovers)
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Subject: Re: HELP with installing Imagen 8/300
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Date: Wed, 21-Nov-84 02:26:46 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 21 02:26:46 1984
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From: decvax!decwrl!sun!beau@uw-beaver.arpa (Beau James)
In particular reference to the question about utilities for printing
images from Sun workstation displays:

The standard Sun software release (1.1 and later versions) contains
a utility program for generating screen dumps, named "screendump"
(see "screendump (1)", along with its counterpart, "screenload"
and "screenload (1)").  The output/input of these programs is in
Sun standard rasterfile format (described in /usr/include/rasterfile.h).
It is not difficult to compose a spooler output filter to translate this
format into whatever format a particular printer desires for raster image
data.

Sun does not generally supply the printer-specific output filters.
Imagen does supply this software for connecting their printers to
Suns, as part of Sun's third party program, and they include a
screendump output filter [perhaps "will include", and it's not
on the Imagen software tape you already have?].

Beau James
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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