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From: BLARSON@USC-ECLB.ARPA.UUCP
Newsgroups: mod.computers.laser-printers
Subject: Drivers for Xerox 4050
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Date: Sun, 11-Jan-87 21:41:17 EST
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Very soon we will be getting a Xerox 4050 50 page per minute laser printer.
for use on our Primes.  Its main use will be for reports, but I would also
like to be able to do some nice-looking text on it.  (The 4050 was chosen
over the 8700 purely on space considerations.)

At first the interface will be via tape since the 4050 doesn't have any
reasonable interface.  It will be hooked to some kind of a protocol converter
box so it can understand data-products parallel ascii as soon as possible.
Does anybody have experience with such a protocol converter on a large
xerox laser-printer?  I never was completely happy with the serial-parallel
conversion box we got for our 2700-I's.

Is there a Tex driver available for the 4050?  Would it be hard to adapt
to the prime version of Tex?

(I'm also curious about scribe, but it would probably involve to much money
to update our ancient and useless Prime version.)

Bob Larson
Arpa: Blarson@Usc-Eclb.arpa
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