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From: furuta@uw-beaver (Richard Furuta)
Newsgroups: net.text
Subject: Re: Commercial font needed
Message-ID: <974@uw-beaver>
Date: Sat, 30-Mar-85 04:19:14 EST
Article-I.D.: uw-beave.974
Posted: Sat Mar 30 04:19:14 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 31-Mar-85 03:29:35 EST
References: <256@shell.UUCP>
Reply-To: furuta@uw-beaver.UUCP (Richard furuta)
Organization: U of Washington Computer Science
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Summary: 

In article <256@shell.UUCP> buck@shell.UUCP (Lester Buck) writes:
>
>     The font you mean is called "Univers" and is  available
>from the Mergenthaler Linotype Stempel Haas digital typeface
>library.  They just  got  through  changing  their  name  to
>Allied  Linotype.   I  called  them up for information about
>their new PostScript phototypesetters  mentioned  in  laser-
>lovers.   Currently they sell the L300 (max 2540 lines/inch,
>$34k + front end) and the L101 (max 1440 lines/inch, $23k  +
>front end) which have PostScript buried inside (according to
>the salesman), but do not support the  graphics  primitives.
>The  newer P300 and P101 to be out in a few months will sup-
>port the full  PostScript  language,  but  prices  were  not
>available.   The front end terminal they require ranges from
>$5k to $10k, but the salesman indicated that  sometime  they
>will be selling a bare phototypesetter with a communications
>port that accepts PostScript input.

Please note that a subsequent message to Laser-Lovers from Andy Shore of
Adobe indicated that the Allied Linotype salesperson was wrong about
PostScript being buried inside of the L300 and L101.


					--Rick