chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano) (03/30/89)
eli@chipcom.com (chipcom!eli@spdcc.com) writes: >hi -- what sort of printer would you recommend for a small network of Sun >3s (4 workstations, 2 with disk)? >But is it possible to convert postscript into HP Laserjet bitmap language? Get a PostScript printer. More and more, people are moving to PostScript as a standard format. While it is possible to convert PostScript to HPGL in some horribly tedious fashion, why not go with the real thing? It is easier (I'll bet) to go from HPGL to PostScript than vice versa. PostScript is becoming an easy way to distribute complex documents electronically. I only ship tooltool documentation in PostScript, and DEC recently put the DecStation 3100 techinical reports on the net in PostScript. All major doc-gen tools generate PostScript. PostScript is the way to go. My recommendation is a LaserWriter IINTX. We have put about 40,000 pages through ours in the last nine months or so without a single glitch or problem. Chuck Musciano Advanced Technology Department Harris Corporation (407) 727-6131 ARPA: chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com
aad@stepstone.com (Anthony A. Datri) (04/22/89)
>eli@chipcom.com (chipcom!eli@spdcc.com) writes: >>hi -- what sort of printer would you recommend for a small network of Sun >>3s (4 workstations, 2 with disk)? >Get a PostScript printer. Ditto. My predecessors decided to buy lots of Interleaf, and I think at that time Interleaf wouldn't print to anything but an Imagen, so they bought an Imagen. I can't even figure out a way to specify a non-default point size. PostScript is a big win. Sun sells (or at least used to) repackaged Laserwriters, and they developed NeWS. With the upcoming X11/NeWS server, I'll bet PostScript integrates neatly. Transcript is a nice package to drive the printer, but there are also cheaper and free alternatives out there, but I can't say more because I haven't seen them running. >My recommendation is a LaserWriter IINTX. I'd recommend a LaserWriter as well. If you budget's tight, a used LW+ might be a good idea. Beware that the SC model *isn't PostScript*, so it should be avoided for your application. I've heard that Interleaf's PS support uses LW-specific code. GRRRRRRRR. Our Imagen dealer tried to sell us Imagen's UltraScript for our printer, but we could buy a whole new LaserWriter for what they wanted to charge us. -- @disclaimer(Any concepts or opinions above are entirely mine, not those of my employer, my GIGI, my VT05, or my 11/34) beak is@>beak is not Anthony A. Datri @SysAdmin(Stepstone Corporation) aad@stepstone.com stpstn!aad
gld@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu (Gary L Dare) (05/05/89)
In article <3102@stpstn.UUCP> Anthony A. Datri wrote: >Our Imagen dealer tried to sell us Imagen's UltraScript for our printer, >but we could buy a whole new LaserWriter for what they wanted to charge us. Imagen's pricing is a real rip-off; QMS, their parent company via acquisition, makes a line of PS-based laser-printers at sensible prices. Since we have an Imagen at Columbia's Digital VLSI, we can't just unload it 'cos of the money we've pumped into it already (we bought it years ago, when they were the only network-able lp around). Gary L. Dare > gld@eevlsi.ee.columbia.EDU > gld@cunixd.cc.columbia.EDU "SLAINTE MHATH!" > gld@cunixc.BITNET [[ But the 2308 is probably one of the fastest P*stscript printers around. It does it's work with three 68000's: while one is reading from the cable, the second is doing page composition and the third is actually driving the print engine. It can actually drive the engine at its rated speed. (Enough! This isn't laser-lovers.) --wnl ]]