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Subject: Re: Laser printer servers
Message-ID: <870318-133451-5556@Xerox>
Date: Wed, 18-Mar-87 16:34:13 EST
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Re: the following quote:

Xerox wants Interpress via XNS. There is support for typesetter
independent troff to interpress and XNS on 4.3bsd. If the Xerox is also
channel attached, then print jobs sent via ethernet are queued on the
printer's disk until the channel attach is switched offline.
Interpress must be converted to IMG (bitmap) format before printing.
This is done in the 4050 for all but graphics. A separate microvax can
be purchased to act as a server for the 4050 and do the conversion to
IMG for all jobs including graphics. Host software to do this is also
planned.

(Message unsigned)

The 9700, 8700, and 4050 all support the Commercial Set of Interpress.
If you wish to use features of the Publication or Professional Graphics
Sets, you can attach a Front End Printing Service (FEPS), which converts
full Interpress to the Commercial Set by converting SOME of the document
to bitmap.  But most documents can be generated by Commercial
Interpress.  You need the FEPS to handle arbitrary rotations (90 degree
rotations can be handled by Commercial Interpress), non-horizontal and
non-vertical lines, curves, and colors.

Cheryl