[comp.lang.postscript] Pros & cons of imagesetters

typ125m@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr John Wilkins) (11/13/90)

My institutions is considering the acquisition of a PostScript imagesetter.
My investigations have narrowed it down to a few, which I shall not
mention yet, but I am interested to hear of anyone's joys or griefs
on late models.

Specifically, I am interested in:

1. Incompatibilities with any systems or applications
2. Processing speeds (is the Linotronic 330 RIP the fastest?)
3. Imaging method (banding problems)
etc.

Please mail directly to me and I'll summarise after a respectable
interval. Thank you

-- 
John Wilkins, Manager, Publishing & Advertising,
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Internet: john@publications.ccc.monash.edu.au
Disclaimer (in Quantificational Calculus):

asmith@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Adam Smith) (11/13/90)

> My institutions is considering the acquisition of a PostScript imagesetter.
> My investigations have narrowed it down to a few, which I shall not
> mention yet, but I am interested to hear of anyone's joys or griefs
> on late models.
> 

YOW!

Do you want volumes 1 through 10, or shall I start with volume 97 and work 
backwards?
My advice would be to buy lunch for someone at a local service bureau or 
colour house. Better still ,do a couple. You'll get a broader range of 
experience.
I have been working for only a year and a half at an output serivice bureuau 
and I'm already afraid my brain is going to burst. There is far too much to 
know to attempt to write it all.

In spite of what I've just said, I'd be most interested to hear how other 
people sum up their experiences. Please drop me a line with the responses 
you receive.

cheers
adam

asmith@questor.wimsey.bc.ca


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