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From: chari@juniper.uucp (Christopher Michael Whatley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: the NeXT printer (or lets talk about something else)
Message-ID: <5696@juniper.uucp>
Date: 20 Oct 88 15:23:20 GMT
References: <5807@zodiac.UUCP> <15626@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <7420@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: chari@juniper.UUCP (Christopher Michael Whatley)
Organization: Austin UNIX Users' Group, Austin, TX
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Ok, lets get this printer thing straight...

It is a 400dpi laser based on a standard Canon engine. It is completely dumb
save a single VLSI that handles the bit-blasting (~1.5mbit/sec in 300dpi
draft and 4mbit/sec in 400dpi best mode). The display postscript that drives
the display also generates the raster for the printer.

The fact that the screen is 94dpi and that the printer is 300 or 400 dpi
is totally inconsequential. Postscript does not care. Postscript is totally
resolution independent. As long as the interpreter knows the resolution of
the output medium, the output is scaled correctly.

So from now on lets talk about important things like....

How can we scan in the latest nude pictures of Brigitte Nielsen. Really,
what did they use to scan in all those nice pictures I saw on the TV spot?

Chris

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