hidinger@cod.UUCP (Ronald M. Hidinger) (07/28/87)
I am interested in hearing of anyone's experience with the Tektronix 4692 color printer and driver. Critiques of other printers and drivers are welcome, also. I will summarize any responses. Ron H. hidinger@nosc.mil
putnam@peanuts.nosc.mil (Mike Putnam) (06/06/90)
We are currently considering buying a color printer for our
network. Ideally we would like to find a color Postscript
printer that uses dye sublimation technology (has anyone
heard of such a machine?). If we found such a printer
would it be possible to use Apollo's color Postscript
(Textronix 4693) driver with it? I assume that we would need
to capture the Postscript output from the driver and then send
the postscript file to the dye sublimation printer.
Mike Putnam
Naval Ocean Systems Center
San Diego, CA
Internet: putnam@nosc.mil
UUCP: sdcsvax!noscvax!putnamkrowitz%richter@UMIX.CC.UMICH.EDU (David Krowitz) (06/06/90)
The color dye diffusion/dye sublimation printers I have looked at (Kodak, NEC, and Hitachi) have all been bitmap (raster) image printers. These devices are generally geared towards printing 24-plane true-color images, as they can produce a full 16.7 millon color image without resorting to dithering techniques. Postscript was designed as a textual page layout language, not as a 3D color imaging language. As such, it is not real good at describing true color images (at least, not is less space than a 24-plane color bitmap would take). The model of the 4693D which Apollo was initially selling was not the Postscript compatible model, it was the straight raster bitmap printer. Unless they have begun to support both the original model and the Postscript (aka. the Phaser) model I don't think you could use Apollo's printer driver, and my latest copy of the Apollo add-on products catalog only lists the non-Postscript version of the printer. -- David Krowitz krowitz@richter.mit.edu (18.83.0.109) krowitz%richter.mit.edu@eddie.mit.edu krowitz%richter.mit.edu@mitvma.bitnet (in order of decreasing preference)
tjohn@ike.mavd.honeywell.com ("Tony John") (06/07/90)
krowitz@richter.mit.edu writes: > The model of the 4693D which Apollo was initially selling was not > the Postscript compatible model, it was teh straight raster bitmap > printer. Unless they have begun to support both the original model > and the Postscript (aka. the Phaser) model I don't think you could > use Apollo's printer drive, and my latest copy of the Apollo add-on > products catalog only lists the non-Postscript version of the printer. Well, I just received from Install Apollo some propaganda on the Textronix Phaser PX Color Printer. They even listed an upgrade to the 4693D printer in the price quote I received. You can call Instant Apollo for more info. (1-800-225-5290) I'm not endorsing Instant Apollo, I'm just a satisfied customer. Tony John tjohn@ike.mavd.honeywell.com (129.30.6.122) Opinions expressed herein are not those of Honeywell, they don't know anything anyway.