laser-lovers@uw-beaver (07/27/85)
From: Neal Holtz <holtz%cascade.carleton.cdn%ubc.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa>
You will likely get better info from SIGGRAPH attendees, but in the meantime,
extracting supposed facts from the Apollo press releases of July 24
(and omitting the blarney -- which cuts down size remarkably):
DOMAIN/LASER-26 laser printer:
- "up to" 26 pages/minute
- 300 dpi.
- PostScript interpreter built-in to graphics processor on printer
- up to 11x17 inch paper
- straight-through paper path
- 1500 sheet capacity paper cassettes
- optional 10-bin sorter/collater
- RS-232 or Centronics parallel interface
- less then 55 db noise.
PostScript support:
- "Apollo has adopted PostScript as its standard corporate print
language ... "
- "Because the PostScript decomposer runs on Apollo workstations,
users can output PostScript files to non-PostScript printers."
(there is also a statement implying [I think] that it might be possible
for users to write their own device drivers for the PostScript
decomposer, but I found it confusing and fairly content-free, so
I won't quote it).
LaserWriter support:
- "Apollo also announced new software that supports the Apple
LaserWriter ... . ... connected to the workstation via RS-232 ... "
(this may be simply providing support for the print server
and "PRF" command, but I know no more.)