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Article #9109PostScript Printers Attached to Facsimile Boards
From: Ivan N. Bach
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1990 11:28
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1990 11:28
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Adobe proposed last year a new use for PostScript. We are going to have a fax board which will determine whether the receiving facsimile machine is connected to a PostScript printer. It will then transmit a PostScript program instead of a bitmap over telephone lines. If we are going to have a large number of facsimile machines attached to PostScript printers, there will be a large number of transmissions of PostScript programs over telephone lines. Most of the time you will not look at the transmitted PostScript code, but you will still pay for its readability. When you get your long-distance telephone bills, you will find out exactly how much the readable format of PostScript is costing you. Maybe then you will understand why I think that PostScript interpreters should also support a binary format. Ivan N. Bach Tel (408) 986-9400, x508 QMS, Inc. Fax (408) 727-3725 2650 San Tomas Expressway arpa: ib@imagen.com Santa Clara, CA 95051 uucp: decwrl!imagen!ib
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!sun!imagen!daemon From: ib@apolling (Ivan N. Bach) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: PostScript Printers Attached to Facsimile Boards Message-ID: <9464@imagen.UUCP> Date: 28 Feb 90 11:28:23 GMT Sender: daemon@imagen.UUCP Lines: 16