Re: Host software alternatives to PS engines?

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From: Charles Hedrick
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 1988 00:22

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>   buy a cheap printing engine, without PostScript support,
>and do the PostScript to raster conversion in the host computer.  Does anyone
>know if there is any such product on the market, or anticipated to be? 

IBM has a Postscript implementation for their PC's that appears to do
conversion on the PC.  They seem to use a barebones print engine, a
board that fits in the PC and generates the image, and software on the
PC that does the Postscript.  An interesting approach to bringing down
the cost of Postscript printing.  Also, for the IBM mainframes, there
are several printers that appear to use an IBM (or possibly ANSI)
command set, with Postscript software for the mainframe.  I don't have
any more information, as I've only seen glossy descriptions in
passing, so don't ask me for any more details.

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From: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick)
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Subject: Re: Host software alternatives to PS engines?
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Date: 16 Sep 88 00:22:33 GMT
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