steve@thelake.UUCP (Steve Yelvington) (12/04/89)
(Following a discussion on direct-imaging vs. Postscript and Hewlett-Packard-style printers. This message, and followups, are crossposted to comp.text.desktop.) In article <89Dec1.201000est.57415@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca>, MEGGIN@vm.epas.utoronto.ca (David Megginson) writes ... >My spouse uses our ST to layout a section of a large-circulation >Canadian magazine. We use Calamus and a Lino imagesetter for the final >flats, but for proofs, we use the SLM804. 5 minutes for a page? What a >joke! Who the hell uses a laser printer and only prints out single pages? >We can print out a hundred pages in well under a half hour on the SLM804, >that would take more than an entire business day at 5 min/page. Dave, yours is the first message I've seen from anyone using Calamus with a real typesetter. I'd like to know a lot more about it, including: * What Linotype model? Price? * Precisely how is the interface configured? I've heard that the ICD (or Ditek) folks have rigged some way to bypass the Linotype RIP processor and just blast bits from the Mega ST to the typesetter's laser. True? * What memory requirements does this impose? If you're running greater than 1200 dpi density on the output device, doesn't that suck RAM in the Mega ST? * How fast is it? * How big a page can you manage? A Mega/Linotype setup that could blast out tabloid newspaper pages could be a formidable setup. * Doesn't the Lino gag at the thought of Compugraphic fonts? (Just kidding.) * Is anybody OEMing this sort of package? * Is there a Linotype plain-paper high-resolution printer that will run on such a setup? (One of the big selling points of laser xerographic typesetting has been that it can cut the production costs of the average U.S. weekly newspaper by $20,000 a year by avoiding silver-based phototypesetting paper, according to an informal survey taken by the American Newspaper Publishers Association.) -- Steve Yelvington, up at the lake in Minnesota ... pwcs.StPaul.GOV!stag!thelake!steve (UUCP)