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From: ib@apolling (Ivan N. Bach)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: PostScript Printers Attached to Facsimile Boards
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Date: 28 Feb 90 11:28:23 GMT
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Adobe proposed last year a new use for PostScript.  We are going to have
a fax board which will determine whether the receiving facsimile machine
is connected to a PostScript printer.  It will then transmit a PostScript
program instead of a bitmap over telephone lines.  If we are going to have
a large number of facsimile machines attached to PostScript printers, there
will be a large number of transmissions of PostScript programs over telephone
lines.  Most of the time you will not look at the transmitted PostScript code,
but you will still pay for its readability.  When you get your long-distance 
telephone bills, you will find out exactly how much the readable format of
PostScript is costing you.  Maybe then you will understand why I think that
PostScript interpreters should also support a binary format.

Ivan N. Bach                      Tel (408) 986-9400, x508
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