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From: elwell@OHIO-STATE.CSNET ("Clayton M. Elwell")
Newsgroups: mod.computers.laser-printers
Subject: Re: Printing DVI on a Xerox 2700
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Date: Fri, 17-Jan-86 11:30:42 EST
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Granted, A Xerox 2700 is Not The Right Way to print TeX output (for the
uninformed, think of a mediocre 12 ppm office copier with a small
diskless IBM PC as a controller [8086, 256K]).

Here at OSU we have TeX support for the 2700 model II on both
a DecSystem-20 (written in WEB) and 4.2bsd UNIX (in C).  It will
print most LaTeX and TeX documents, including ones with lots of
math.  The biggest two limitations are:

	1) The 2700 is S...L...O...W when it loads fonts.  We're talking
	   many minutes here.
	2) Fonts only go up to magstep 4.

For more information, send mail to osu-eddie!gourlay.

Note: our distribution does not include any Xerox proprietary information;
we provide the fonts already converted to 2700 format.