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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: How did they make the printer so cheap?
Message-ID: <574@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 18 Oct 88 17:03:33 GMT
References: <5807@zodiac.UUCP> <15626@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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In article <15626@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu writes:
> 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.  I got
> >suspicious when I heard that there was a specific PRINTER port for the
> >machine.  Anyone got the real scoop?
> >
> >=John=
> It is not a postscript printer. Is this a change in Adobe's licensing
> policy? I thought you had to have postscrip in the printer.

Not a requirement -- the IBM PostScript printer has the PostScript in
the controller card in the computer.

Does anyone really have any specs about the NeXT PostScript printer?
What sort of interfaces does it have?  (When will I be able to buy
one for my PC?)




-- 
Clayton E. Cramer
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