laser-lovers@uw-beaver (02/27/85)
From: bierma@nprdc Greetings, We are running 4.2BSD on two 11/780's. We will soon have access to three XEROX laser printers. An offline 9700, a 5700 attached to a neighbor IBM 43XX which we will soon be networked to, and a 2700 that will be directly attached to one of the VAX's. Our goal of course is to be able to use all of these printers as troff output devices. Questions: The 2700 will be delivered with "Image Networks"(?) troff software. Anybody have any comments or words of wisdom about this software? Are there better packages to drive the 2700. [Note: this is a 2700 from XEROX, not a printer based on the 2700 from some other source.] The 5700 currently talks to an IBM over a bisync channel. It will soon be attached to a common ethernet and communicate with a number of 860 workstations. Anyone know of a CAT/DVI to UCL/DCL/Interpress filter we can use to drive this beast? Or, since the 5700 emulates an IBM 6670 laser printer at software to support troff output on the 6670 would work just as well. I seem to recall a paper at the Wash DC USENIX conference about a law firm that printed on a 6670 from an 11/70, anybody out have any leads? Finally we will have occasional access to an offline 9700. Anyone know how to create tapes that the 9700 will read and print? I'll appreciate any info you can send me. --Larry ARPA: bierma@nprdc.arpa UUCP: {decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!sdcsvax!sdcsla!nprdc!bierma PSTN: (619) 225-2161 "And where are all the sportsmen who always pulled you through"
laser-lovers@uw-beaver (03/04/85)
From: cornell!bonnie!lda@uw-beaver.arpa (Larry Auton) I have two Xerox 2700 II's running under System V Release 2.0. They are equipped with parallel Dataproducts interfaces. We are driving them from VAX-11/780's with DEC LP11 cards. We are using a device independent troff driver (dx2700) from VOELKER-LEHMAN SYSTEMS, INC. 44000 Warm Springs Blvd. Fremont, California 94538 Contact: Michael Sweeney (415) 490-3555 ihnp4!bonnie!vlsvax1!michael We got this driver several months ago as a beta-test site. It has performed beautifully. It supports all of the troff preprocessors like PIC, IDEAL, GRAP, EQN, and TBL. The code is very stable (ie, only 1 change since we got it), and is very efficient. The VLS people did an excellent job of planning before putting this system on the market. The documentation is also very good (surprise!). The dx2700 package comes with lots of goodies for building fonts from other font files that you may have around. I was able to use all of the font files that I had on hand from Image Network (the xroff people) with dx2700. The "troff|dx2700" combination also uses about twenty percent less CPU time than xroff and prints at about 10 pages per minute (our version xroff prints about 4 pages per minute). The VLS software will run on a wide variety of machines and UNIX versions. It was developed on a VAX-11/780 4.2 BSD machine, and has been ported to System V [ Release 2.0 ] on VAX, 3B20, 3B5 and 3B2. Since we got dx2700 on a beta-test agreement, we didn't have to pay for it (with $$); so I don't know what they charge for the system. Larry Auton (201)386-4272 ihnp4!bonnie!lda -- Larry Auton (201)386-4272 ihnp4!bonnie!lda