Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pyrdc!pyrnj!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!hedrick From: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Host software alternatives to PS engines? Message-ID: Date: 16 Sep 88 00:22:33 GMT References: Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 13 > buy a cheap printing engine, without PostScript support, >and do the PostScript to raster conversion in the host computer. Does anyone >know if there is any such product on the market, or anticipated to be? IBM has a Postscript implementation for their PC's that appears to do conversion on the PC. They seem to use a barebones print engine, a board that fits in the PC and generates the image, and software on the PC that does the Postscript. An interesting approach to bringing down the cost of Postscript printing. Also, for the IBM mainframes, there are several printers that appear to use an IBM (or possibly ANSI) command set, with Postscript software for the mainframe. I don't have any more information, as I've only seen glossy descriptions in passing, so don't ask me for any more details.