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From: bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield)
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Subject: Re: How did they make the printer so cheap?
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Date: 18 Oct 88 13:50:39 GMT
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In article <5807@zodiac.UUCP> jshelton@ads.com (John L. Shelton) writes:
>How can NeXT possibly make a postscript printer to sell for $2000?
>I'm afraid to find out, but I suspect that the printer has no CPU and
>memory.  More likely, the printer uses the NeXT CPU and memory.

Correct.  The PostScript imaging happens in the cube, then the bits
get blasted, real fast, across the cable to the Canon engine in the
printer.  I'm curious about, in a Bezerkeley remote line printer
daemon environment (one cube with a printer per cluster), whether the
imaging happens in the print server cube or in the cube that
originated the print job, and what are the tradeoffs in each one's CPU
and network bandwidth, etc.
-=-
Zippy sez,								--Bob
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