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From: zrm@eddie.MIT.EDU (Zigurd R. Mednieks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: cheap non PS and pseudo PS LWs. A LW-?
Message-ID: <6224@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 29-Jun-87 20:34:45 EDT
Article-I.D.: eddie.6224
Posted: Mon Jun 29 20:34:45 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 1-Jul-87 02:28:44 EDT
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Reply-To: zrm@eddie.MIT.EDU (Zigurd R. Mednieks)
Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA
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Keywords: Postscript, clone

In article <1793@mhuxt.UUCP> evans@mhuxt.UUCP (Sukie Crandall) writes:
>
>Brian Diehm writes:
>>Rumors continue unabated in the press about Apple bringing out a low-cost
>LaserWriter without PostScript. Target price appears to be <$2000. It would
>have a built-in QuickDraw RIP.
>...<
>I agree that a LW- without postscript would be a loose. One thing that may

I don't agree that not having Postscript would make a losing
laserwriter. It would take too long to spell it out, but it looks as
though there are very few things that a QuickDraw printer couldn't do.
You couldn't program it like a LaserWriter, but you could print text
at the same qality as the current LaserWriter, and you could print
graphics (at least Quickdraw-originated graphics) with the same
quality too.

Anything that could not be done through abstractions in the printer
driver could be handled through driver control calls.

In addition, such a printer wouln't need neccessarily need a separate
processor -- the Macintosh itself could create and tranfer bits fast
enough.

$2000? Where do I sign?

-Zigurd