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From: garry@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Garry Wiegand)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Printing companies who know Tex
Message-ID: <4274@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 31 Mar 88 22:57:53 GMT
Reply-To: garry@oak.cadif.cornell.edu
Organization: Cornell Engineering && Ithaca Software, Inc.
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I have a thick computer manual that's written all in Tex. I've been
printing it on a small Postscript laser printer at 300 dpi. For the
second edition, I would dearly love to find a means, at whatever cost,
of getting it printed at real "book" resolution.

I've talked to many printers and phototypesetting companies around here
and in Boston. A few of them have high-resolution laser film recorders.
[There's a rumor of a 600 dpi laser-printer, but noone seems to own one
yet.] A few of the film recorder places will take Postscript files on Mac 
floppies (presumably from desktop-publishing software packages.) Nobody
professes any knowledge of Tex or .DVI files. 

Doing it in postscript sounds like a big hassle: we've already figured out
that all-new pixel files and 100 to 200 floppies might be involved. The
extreme size comes from the hi-res pixels and the limited Postscript
pixel memory - dvi2ps has to keep dumping and re-loading characters as it 
goes along. 


So: help! Can anyone point me to a printing company that *knows* Tex?


garry wiegand   (garry@oak.cadif.cornell.edu - ARPA)
		(garry@crnlthry - BITNET)

("So, I need to 'metafont' some pixel files. What resolution does your machine 
 run at?"  "Oh, anywhere from 300 to 2500 dpi. We just turn the dial.")