waters@viking.DEC (PCSG Software Jihad) (07/18/85)
=================== Subject: 19 Companies Plan to Use Common Printing Standards for Computers To: TodayAtXerox^.PA From: Today At Xerox <Hutchins.PA> Reply-To: Hutchins.PA TODAY AT XEROX NO. 965 June 24, 1985 NINETEEN COMPANIES PLAN TO USE COMMON PRINTING STANDARD FOR COMPUTERS Nineteen companies today announced their support of the Interpress page-description language as a common electronic printing standard for computers. Xerox Corporation, Burroughs Corporation, Detroit, Mich.; Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Mass.; and Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, West Germany announced their support of Interpress as an industry standard. Other companies supporting the standard include Advanced Computer Communications, Santa Barbara, Calif.; Dataproducts Corporation, Woodland Hills, Calif.; The Exponential Corporation, Wellesley, Mass.; Genicom Corporation, Waynesboro, VA; Imagen Corporation, Santa Clara, Calif.; Integraph Corporation, Huntsville, Ala.; Interleaf, Inc. Cambridge, Mass.; OASYS (Office Automation Systems, Inc.), San Diego, Calif.; Oce Van Der Grinten N.V., Venlo, the Netherlands; PERQ Systems Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA; Raster Graphics Inc., Mt. Kisco, NY; Studio Software Corporation, Irvine, Calif.; Texet Corporation, Arlington, Mass.; Unilogic Ltd., Pittsburgh, PA; and XYVision, Inc, Woburn, Mass. By implementing a common printing standard, these companies are working to ensure that documents created on a variety of computers can be printed on many different types of output devices, such as laser printers or typesetters. Many computer users currently face the problem of integrating equipment from different vendors so that documents created on one system can be printed on another. For example, users often find that their workstations cannot print documents on a desired printer without special translation programs. The companies said that an industry standard for printers will prevent the compatibility problems now associated, for example, with word processing equipment. "Adopting a common print standard is a major step towards ensuring compatibility among a wide variety of equipment. It frees the end user from the need to develop or obtain special software, or to know about the special characteristics of a particular printer," said Jerome Elkind, Xerox vice president, System Integration. Interpress has been used by Xerox for its line of office automation and electronic printing equipment since 1982. Xerox has already implemented Interpress on more than 20 of the Company's workstations, laser printers and output devices that span a wide range of cost and performance. ==================