[misc.wanted] Information needed about Desktop Publishing

dcw@doc.ic.ac.uk (Duncan C White) (05/08/87)

Hi...

A (news-less) friend has asked me to forward the following message,
and to relay any answers/follow-ups to him.

His name is Richard Davis, and he is a Final Year undergraduate doing
the Computer Science course at Imperial College, London.  Every student
in this course has to do an individual project of their choice.  He is
doing a project about Desktop Publishing.  In particular, he is co-operating
with a company who already have about fifteen or twenty Apricot's, and
a primitive local-area network.  They wish to be able to do some desktop
publishing on their existing system, rather than starting from scratch
[ so the simple solution "gimme some Macintoshes" is inadequate ]

One part of his project, then, is a practical evaluation of alternatives.
The rest of his project will then be concerned with purchasing necessary
hardware and software, and then designing and implementing any parts of
the system [ especially the interface to the LAN ] which cannot be
purchased "off the shelf".

So, his basic question is :

>Does anyone know of a high quality printer with a resolution of around 450
>dots per inch (certainly more than the standard 300 dpi) that is fairly
>cheap (ie under 4000 pounds). It should be compatible with Macintosh and/or
>IBM compatible desktop publishing software, preferably using postscript,
>but something else with similar capabilities will do.

>Richard Davis.

If you have any relevent information, please e-mail it to me (address below)
rather than posting it to the net.


	ecnavda ni sknahT

( well, people always say I'm backward :-)


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