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From: steve@pnet51.cts.com (Steve Yelvington)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Advertising
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Date: 3 Apr 89 00:25:06 GMT
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abc@cs.purdue.EDU (Alan B. Chan) writes:
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>Guess what I saw tonight at 11:50pm EST during Nightline? Low and
>behold I saw an ad from Atari for the Mega 4, monitor, and SLM804
>laser printer. All of which cost less than the Apple Laserwriter NTX,
>or some laser from IBM. Anyway, it went on to boast some features.
>I was wondering if anyone else has seen this ad. It's great to see
>Atari finally advertising, but there was one thing that bothered me.
>Maybe I was alseep or something, but I could have sworn I heard the ad
>say that the SLM804 was PostScript compatible???? That's pushing it
>isn't it( assuming I heard correctly)? Is Ultrascript that compatible
>that you could print postscript files on the Atari Laser? More
>importantly has anyone seen this ad, too? If so did this seem kind of 
>odd? If you haven't seen it, look out for it and watch for where they
>talk about the Atari printer vs postscript printers.
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>Alan Chan
>chanab@en.ecn.purdue.edu
>abc@arthur.cs.purdue.edu

Atari currently is running quarter-page ads in both Minneapolis-St.Paul papers
alternating between the publishing package (Mega, SLM804, Timeworks) and the
reduced-price 520 and 1040. It's nice to see some promotion even if it does
seem at least two years later than it should have appeared.
 
I downloaded an interesting review of the Ultrascript/SLM804 package from
Delphi the other night. (I'd post it, but it has a copyright notice and no
release.) According to the reviewer, the Ultrascript package is VERY
compatible with PostScript, with the added attraction of being a whole bunch
faster than a stand-alone PS printer, such as the Apple Laserwriter. The
reviewer mentioned that there is one incompatibility with Apple's Laser Prep
file, which is downloaded from the Macintosh automatically when you print a
file. However, most PostScript applications seem to provide their own prep
files these days (Pagemaker's Aldus Prep file was mentioned specifically), and
they work just fine.

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