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Re: Print PostScript on a Xerox 4050?

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From: Phil Weingart
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 1994 16:16
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In article <2p0o09$72b@mojo.eng.umd.edu> mfinn@eng.umd.edu (Michael J. Finn) writes:
>In article <2oml2u$jf7@ucunix.san.uc.edu> egglesnj@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Nick Eggleston) writes:
>>Does anyone know of a way to make the Xerox 4050 printer able
>>to print postscript? Perhaps a postscript to metacode translator?
>
>There used to be a product called Elixir that would perform the PS to 
>Inpterpress conversion via Hardware. If memory serves me corectly, it was 
>a 3rd party device.

Elixir is a forms design software product marketed by Xerox. It is *very*
expensive. It is capable of importing Xerox FDL code and producing
either Postscript of PCL. I don't know whether it can do the reverse.

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