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Getting Output to the Tektronix 4693D

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From: Paul Ausick
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 1988 16:22
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I'm pretty naive about this stuff, so I hope this message is coherent.

We have a Tektronix 4693D color thermal transfer printer connected to our
recently developed Titan graphics supercomputer (runs SysV.3+BSD enhncmnts).
The Tek is owned by engineering and they are loathe to part with it for us
low-life marketing types, but they are willing to let us download files to
it if I can figure out how to get them into a format the Tek understands.
There's the rub.

I would like to produce color slides on my MacII and print them to the Tek.
Is there some way I can save a slide (created in, say, MacDraw) so that I
can then convert it into some format that the Tek can read.  According to my
local talent, the Tek understands bitmaps, so if I can get a MacDraw file
into bitmap format (with color!), I can simply dump it to the Tek.  Any ideas
how I can do that?  I know there is a board I can plug into the MacII NuBus-
do I need one of those?  Is there something else I need?  It seems like a 
MacII/Tek driver would do the trick, if I could save the output to a (large)
file.  

Any help/suggestions will be gratefully received.  Thanks.

/Paul Ausick
Ardent Computer Corporation
880 Maude Ave.			uucp: uunet!ardent!paul
Sunnyvale, CA 94086		408/732-0400

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