bill@parkridge.UUCP (04/13/88)
Hello, I am looking for information regarding desktop publishing for a client. They are interested in setting up an area specifically for desktop publishing and would prefer to be in a UNIX environment as all their office automation is currently on UNIX/XENIX machines. They would have 3 or more users. Currently they are considering using Mac II's although it has been difficult to get any information on this machine running UNIX. We are also interested in other workstations, etc. I would like to hear from anyone who is using desktop publishing on workstations or Mac II's or even IBM-PC's. I am also interested in systems that network 2 or more micros or workstations. Note that the software should be WYSIWYG and the micro or workstation must have good resolution to show how the output will be on the page. As for hardware, we are interested in good quality plotters, high resolution laser printers (600 dpi and up), colour [alternate spelling, not a mistake!] monitors, tablets, digitizers, etc. If anyone knows of any products that would be interesting to us or has any comments on desktop publishing hardware and software that they are using, please send me mail on the subject. Thanks Bill Bill Nickerson Parkridge Computer Systems Inc., 1226 White Oaks Blvd, Unit #3, Oakville, Ontario, Canada, L6H 2B9 (416)842-6873 utzoo!parkridge!bill
bill@uunet.UU.NET (04/15/88)
I am looking for information regarding desktop publishing for a
client. They are interested in setting up an area specifically for
desktop publishing and would prefer to be in a UNIX environment as all
their office automation is currently on UNIX/XENIX machines. They would
have 3 or more users. Currently they are considering using Mac II's
although it has been difficult to get any information on this machine
running UNIX. We are also interested in other workstations, etc. I would
like to hear from anyone who is using desktop publishing on workstations
or Mac II's or even IBM-PC's. I am also interested in systems that
network 2 or more micros or workstations. Note that the software should
be WYSIWYG and the micro or workstation must have good resolution to show
how the output will be on the page.
As for hardware, we are interested in good quality plotters,
high resolution laser printers (600 dpi and up), colour [alternate spelling,
not a mistake!] monitors, tablets, digitizers, etc.
If anyone knows of any products that would be interesting to us or
has any comments on desktop publishing hardware and software that they are
using, please send me mail on the subject.
Thanks
Bill
Bill Nickerson
Parkridge Computer Systems Inc.,
1226 White Oaks Blvd, Unit #3,
Oakville, Ontario, Canada,
L6H 2B9
(416)842-6873
utzoo!parkridge!bill
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with a subject line of helpchuck@trantor.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano) (04/15/88)
>They are interested in setting up an area specifically for >desktop publishing and would prefer to be in a UNIX environment as all >their office automation is currently on UNIX/XENIX machines. Here at Harris, we use Frame Maker, from Frame Technology, on Sun workstations. Our users are pleased, and the overall cost per system is relatively low. If you want real Unix machines, I think it is a mistake to go with Mac II. Sun workstations are far more "developed" in that the Unix is mature, network support is built in, and the Sun Unix community is growing by leaps and bounds. I would guess that a Mac II, equipped with a 19" 80 dpi screen (on a Sun, that comes to 1152x900, allowing full 8.5x11 WYSIWYG), Ethernet, at least 140 Mbytes of disk, 8 megs of memory, Unix, two serial ports, mouse, and 1/4" cart tape would cost far more than a 3/60 so equipped. If you can live with just 4 megs of memory, a 3/50 is definitely cheaper. Suns also give you an upgrade path to faster machines, up to 8 mip Sun-4, if you so desire. If you must have PC compatibility, look at the new Sun RoadRunner (I think they designated it the Sun-386i), which is a 386 based workstation with all of the above features. However, I don't know if Frame Maker runs on this platform yet. I can't speak for plotters, but if you need higher than 300 dpi from a laser printer, you're talking big bucks, particularly if you want PostScript compatibility. We find the LaserWriter (300 dpi) to be perfectly adequate for our in-house publishing and some camera-ready work. I also don't know about color raster devices, especially PostScript ones. You may want to look into the new HP ThinkJet printers, or the new (expensive) Seiko color printers. Chuck Musciano Advanced Technology Department Harris Corporation (305) 727-6131 ARPA: chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com ---------------------------------------- Submissions to: desktop@plaid.sun.com Administrivia to: desktop-request@plaid.sun.com UUCP: {amdahl,decwrl,hplabs,ihnp4}!sun!plaid!desktop{-request} Archives can be gotten from the archive-server. To get information on the archive-server, send mail to: archive-server@plaid.sun.com -or- sun!plaid!archive-server with a subject line of help
nancy@ftp.com (Nancy Connor) (04/16/88)
Well, it would help if we knew what sorts of machines your client
already has. If they really want to add Mac IIs that's one thing, but
if they already have Suns or Vaxes, presumably they'd rather use what's
available. There are a number of good publishing tools which will run
on diskless workstations attached to Suns and Vaxes under UNIX.
-Nancy Connor
FTP Software
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