Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!decvax!bellcore!ulysses!ucbvax!laser-lovers From: BLARSON%ECLD@USC-ECL.ARPA (Bob Larson) Newsgroups: mod.computers.laser-printers Subject: Re: Printing DVI on a Xerox 2700 Message-ID: <12175820932.37.BLARSON@USC-ECLD.Internet> Date: Thu, 16-Jan-86 20:41:59 EST Article-I.D.: USC-ECLD.12175820932.37.BLARSON Posted: Thu Jan 16 20:41:59 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jan-86 11:13:23 EST References: <12175361911.19.DRF@SU-SCORE.ARPA> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 46 Approved: laser-lovers@washington.arpa >From: David Fuchs >The Xerox 2700 is a well-known disaster area. It is unusable as >anything other than a line-printer or daisy-wheel replacement. This is a bit of an exaggeration. (but not much) Scribe does manage to handle the beasties. > >1) Xerox does not provide users with the font format, so to download > fonts requires reverse-engineering the thing. But even if you do... True. There was a good start posted to laser-lovers. > >2) There's not enough room to hold as many different characters as you > would typically find in a reasonable mix of jobs, but that doesn't > even matter, because... Also true, but you can load and unload fonts between pages. > >3) There isn't enough flexibility in the control electronics to place > characters where you want them on the page if you're doing anything > so common as trying to have a different amount of space between > words on different lines of text. Almost true. Scribe gets around the problem by having a font of various sizes of spaces. As far as I know, this font is only available as part of scribe. > >No other laser printer that costs even half as much has any of these >problems, except the DEC LN01, which is actually (almost) the same >machine. (In fact, I am aware of LN01 users that DEC has offered >refunds to; DEC's LN03 machine is ok.) I can't really compare the 2700 to others, I haven't done anything significant with anything else. Remember the 2700 is an old design of a laser printer, I don't think there was anything available for half the price when it came out. > > -david "who is frustrated by the number of people who call up > and say `We just got our 2700, now how do we get TeX > output?' and has to gently tell them they're fools." We've had a bunch of 2700s for a couple of years, now how do we get TeX output? :-) -Bob Larson "who is frustrated trying to convince a Prime that not all printers are dumb line printers." Arpa: Blarson@Usc-Ecl.Arpa Uucp: ihnp4!sdcrdcf!oberon!blarson -------