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Re: cheap non PS and pseudo PS LWs. A LW-?

#17041
From: James Hayes
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1987 01:13
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evans@mhuxt.UUCP (Sukie Crandall) writes in article <1793@mhuxt.UUCP>:
>
> [...]  Apparently a half
>dozen or so companies are frantically working on postscript clones to get in
>on the PS market which is completely held by Adobe (with their $1000+ per
>printer license!). 

$1000+?   Isn't it more like $100?   (Does anyone really know?)

Considering that Apple provided the seed money for Adobe, what kind of license
do they pay per LaserWriter?

(BTW:  The CS dept. at UCSD has 2 QMS/Talaris PS800 Postscript printers that
work flawlessly with Mac generated Postscript. [A tad faster too...] :-)

Jim Hayes, University of California at San Diego.

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From: hayes@wizard.ucsd.edu (James Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: cheap non PS and pseudo PS LWs. A LW-?
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Date: Thu, 25-Jun-87 21:13:02 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 25 21:13:02 1987
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Keywords: Postscript, clone