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From: Hess@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA
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Subject: Typesetting on Linotronic 100
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Date: Wed, 18-Dec-85 01:06:00 EST
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Not strictly laser printer technology, but I got a flyer today from
Aptos Post Typesetting telling me that they had a mail- order
typesetting service available which ran PostScript on their
(just-purchased) Linotronic 100.  They claim that you have to send them
Mac disks, and they will run the application to print the files you
want.  I called and asked if they could download stuff from an IBM PC
disk (obviously, I want to get FinalWord II output on it) which was
PostScript, and they offered to try, although they said thay hadn't even
attempted it yet.  Price $10 per page 8.5 inch wide, slightly more for
11-inch wide stuff.  (The concept of a "page" is kind of strange to hear
from a typesetting type!)

So all you folks who have been using laser printers where only
typesetters would do (instead of using a typesetter when a simple laser
printer would do) can now buy high-quality type, if you choose to afford
it.

Brian (Hess.Unicorn@Mit-Multics)