shull@WHARTON-10.ARPA.UUCP (05/17/86)
I am always surprised when people planning to purchase laser printers fail to consider the importance of a strategic page description language. The war between Adobe System's PostScript, Xerox's Interpress, and the other smaller contenders from Imagen and Interleaf has really only begun, but I find it preferable to pay great attention to these page description langauges, than to be caught with an obsolete $25,000 printer after a year. While my preference is currently for PostScript because it is so solidly in the public domain. Printers supporting PostScript are now available from Apple, Allied Lynotype (really typesetters), DataProducts (up to 26 pages per minute and ~20K pages/month), and maybe QMS (although it keeps appearing and disappearing so fast no one can tell if they are really products or not). All of this is irrelevant if your immediate need is not supported, for example, there may be no ReGIS, Calcomp or Tek to PostScript converters available. (Yes, that is really a question. Anybody have pointers to any of the converters listed above?) However, to by a printer with a rusty Page Description Language without asking the question would be folly. Chris Christopher E. Shull Decision Sciences Department The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania Shull@Wharton-10.ARPA Philadelphia, PA 19104-6366 (215) 898-5930 ------
mrl@oddjob.UUCP.UUCP (05/23/86)
>All of this is irrelevant if your immediate need is not supported, for >example, there may be no ReGIS, Calcomp or Tek to PostScript converters >available. (Yes, that is really a question. Anybody have pointers to >any of the converters listed above?) The current (2.0) version of Transcript includes a Tek4014-to-PostScript filter. -- * * * * * * * Scott Anderson * * ** ihnp4!oddjob!kaos!sra * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *