[fa.laser-lovers] Impress/PostScript/Interpress/...

laser-lovers@uw-beaver (05/26/85)

From: Cal Jackson <CALVIN@CIT-20.ARPA>

Re: Les Earnest to Cal Jackson

I am personally happy to hear that Imagen will shortly provide
PostScript on their printers.  Also, excited that Interpress will
appear.  Sounds like Imagen has pragmatic management and is in the
hands of a super Board of Directors.  I've always been impressed with
the troops in the trenches.  (This comment assumes that PostScript will
eventually satisfy your, very reasonable, conditions (1) and (2).)

This is really exciting: the years that have been expended in getting
type designers/copyright-holders to license font designs to imaging
manufacturers and the few months required to have imaging
manufacturers share that event with a person that would like to be
their own printer.  Fantastic!  Another point, and dear to me, it
seems that a requirement is "quality."  I'm sure, from reading the net
mail, that traditional standards of quality will not be arbitrarily
discarded.

Thanks Les, and thanks to all the folks at Stanford for helping some
interesting things to emerge from the closet.

  cal
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