Re: Host software alternatives to PS engines?

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From: Yoram Eisenstadter
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 1988 14:37

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In article <Sep.15.20.22.32.1988.622@athos.rutgers.edu> hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) writes:
>>   buy a cheap printing engine, without PostScript support,
>>and do the PostScript to raster conversion in the host computer...
>
>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.

The innocuous-looking little board that goes along with the IBM
Personal Pageprinter contains a 68000 processor and 2MB of
memory.  The Postscript interpreter runs on this processor, not
on the PC (which I believe is used only for I/O).

I don't see a big cost differential between putting the 68000 on
an external board the way IBM does, and putting it inside the
printer box the way Apple, for example, does.

Cheers..Y

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