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Subject: Re: Printing DVI on a Xerox 2700
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Date: Sun, 19-Jan-86 09:44:47 EST
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In article <12175361911.19.DRF@SU-SCORE.ARPA> DRF@SU-SCORE.ARPA
(David Fuchs) writes:
>The Xerox 2700 is a well-known disaster area.  It is unusable as
>anything other than a line-printer or daisy-wheel replacement.  If
>whoever sold it to you represented it as otherwise, perhaps you can
>get them to give you a refund if you threaten to sue for fraud.  The
>only thing more amazing than the fact that it was ever marketed is
>that many people actually purchased the thing.

I agree that there are more capable laser-printers around now,
but I feel that David is stating the case against the 2700 a bit
too strongly.  We have been using the 2700 here for several
years.  We typically print 30 to 40 thousand pages of typeset
(ditroff) documentation per month.  Our documents contain tbl,
eqn, pic, and grap displays.  It's the rare case that hits the
2700's complexity/capacity boundries, not the rule.

We use a postprocessor from Voelker-Lehman Systems in Fremont, CA.
VLS has solved most of the problems you mentioned.  If you have a
Xerox 2700 printer (or X3700, or X4045, or HP Laserjet), and need
to be able to produce typeset documents with troff, I suggest that
you give them a call [(415)490-3555 - talk to Michael Sweeney].

BTW, Xerox has just released a firmware upgrade for the X2700.
It's a cartridge called "GraphX" that gives the 2700 a much
broader command set.  It gives the 2700 a very GKS-like command
set for drawing arbitrary vectors, poly-lines, circles, region-fill,
etc., as well as the capabillity to accept and print raster data.

	Larry Auton
	bonnie!lda

Disclamer:  The opinions expressed above are my own and do not
            necessarily represent the opinions of AT&T, VLS, HP,
	    or Xerox.
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