gillies@CS.UIUC.EDU (Don Gillies) (02/20/90)
Here at U/Illinois, we use imagen's, one is a 4320, the other a ?.
Anyway, the turbo ultrascript is incredibly fast -- maybe 10 pages a
minute throughput. Unfortunately, this postscript interpreter is very
buggy. I generate macintosh documents and print them on these
printers. I have never been able to print more than 10 pages at a
time -- the printer dies with some sort of lame excuse, when a
laserwriter would do just fine on the same print job.
My 40-page thesis took all day to print -- I kept getting printer
crashes. We use the imagen-supplied laserwriter dictionaries
(dictv52.ps).
At one point, I tried to incorporate a mathematica picture
(postscript) into my MS-Word thesis. This particular job completely
overflowed the ultrascript interpreter (too many symbols in the
dictionary), and would not print. Unlike the other problems, where I
could break the document up into smaller print jobs, I had no
workaround for this problem.
I wonder if anyone knows any workarounds for these problems, or if
anyone at imagen is accepting gripes about their ultrascript
interpreter.
Don Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801
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