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From: DRF@SU-SCORE.ARPA (David Fuchs)
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Subject: New Laserwriter
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Date: Sun, 19-Jan-86 15:48:44 EST
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[Since everyone at Adobe is too modest to brag about their new stuff,
 I figured I'd really make them sweat and report on it myself...]

At the recently concluded Apple Expo in SF, Adobe and others were
showing the new Apple Laserwriter II (or was it Laserwriter Plus?)
Actually, it was hard to tell who had it and who didn't, since it
looks exactly the same as the older version.  In fact, it is almost
exactly the same: the only new thing is bigger and better ROM.
There's the same amount of RAM as before, and all the electronics is
the same, except for larger capacity ROM chips.  They contain improved
Postscript-interpreter code, which is the sole cause of improved
printing speed.

The ROMs also have a number of new fonts.  These fonts will also be
available seperatly: Adobe was showing boxed sets of disks that had
downloadable versions of the fonts (for folks with un-upgraded
printers) as well as screen versions to be installed on the Macintosh.
Similarly, future fonts will be available in this form, since you
can't go on expanding ROMs forever.  They were also showing their
screen fonts on a PC, though nothing was said about selling them to
end-users.

	-david "who hopes he got it all straight"
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