"Danielle_Battut.ESCP8"@XEROX.COM.UUCP (03/24/87)
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From: Chapman:ES M8:Xerox Sender: FURUTA%WARD.CS.WASHINGTON:EDU:Xerox Subject: Re: Laser printer servers Date: 23-March-87 (Monday) 0:56:50 PST - To: ospwd%emory:ARPA Copies: laser-lovers%WARD.CS.WASHINGTON:EDU, Chapman:ES M8 In reply to: FURUTA%WARD.CS.WASHINGTON:EDU:Xerox Note: Return-Path: <FURUTA@WARD.CS.WASHINGTON.EDU> Redistributed: XeroxLaserLovers^.X Received: from WARD.CS.WASHINGTON.EDU by Xerox.COM ; 23 MAR 87 00:51:43 PST Return-Path: <Cheryl_L._Chapman.ESM8@Xerox.COM> Received: from Xerox.COM by WARD.CS.WASHINGTON.EDU with TCP; Wed 18 Mar 87 13:35:03-PST Received: from Burger.ms by ArpaGateway.ms ; 18 MAR 87 13:34:51 PST Original-Date: 18 Mar 87 13:34:13 PST (Wednesday) Message-ID: <870318-133451-5556@Xerox> ReSent-Date: Sun 22 Mar 87 18:56:33-PST ReSent-From: Richard Furuta <Furuta@WARD.CS.WASHINGTON.EDU> ReSent-To: Laser-Lovers: ; ReSent-Message-ID: <12288556429.10.FURUTA@WARD.CS.WASHINGTON.EDU> Comment on the following: ------------------------------ Re: the following quote: Xerox wants Interpress via XNS. There is support for typesetter independent troff to interpress and XNS on 4.3bsd. If the Xerox is also channel attached, then print jobs sent via ethernet are queued on the printer's disk until the channel attach is switched offline. Interpress must be converted to IMG (bitmap) format before printing. This is done in the 4050 for all but graphics. A separate microvax can be purchased to act as a server for the 4050 and do the conversion to IMG for all jobs including graphics. Host software to do this is also planned. (Message unsigned) The 9700, 8700, and 4050 all support the Commercial Set of Interpress. If you wish to use features of the Publication or Professional Graphics Sets, you can attach a Front End Printing Service (FEPS), which converts full Interpress to the Commercial Set by converting SOME of the document to bitmap. But most documents can be generated by Commercial Interpress. You need the FEPS to handle arbitrary rotations (90 degree rotations can be handled by Commercial Interpress), non-horizontal and non-vertical lines, curves, and colors. Cheryl -------------------------------- Comments on FEPS: This software was developped to have STAR documents be printed on a commercial set printer. STAR documents fit in the Publication set with some differences. For example, the curves are implemented as straight segments. STAR does not implement "CURVETO, CONICTO, ARCTO". Arbitrary rotations are part of the Professionnal Graphic set but not of the Publication set ( '5.2.2). FEPS would not understand them. Danielle