Re: Imagen and DDL

Article View: comp.text

Article #3242

#3242

From: Sean Casey
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1986 23:04

16 lines
1444 bytes

In article <1185@blia.BLI.COM> forrest@blia.BLI.COM (Jon Forrest) writes:
>HP wants to upgrade its printer line so it makes a deal with Imagen
>to use DDL. This means that Imagen's printers (using Impress)
>will be competing with HP's printers (using DDL). Given the

I doubt it.  The imPRESS language that our 8/300 runs is on floppy.
They could easily distribute a floppy that lets the printer take DDL
input.  They could even conceivably support postscript :-).  I don't
know if the newer models of Imagen printers have their languages on
floppies or not, but then you could always just change the roms.

Sean
-- 
===========================================================================
Sean Casey      UUCP:  cbosgd!ukma!sean           CSNET:  sean@ms.uky.csnet
		ARPA:  ukma!sean@anl-mcs.arpa    BITNET:  sean@UKMA.BITNET

Technical Details

Message-ID: <5309@ukma.ms.uky.csnet>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!mordor!sri-spam!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!cbatt!ukma!sean

References: <1185@blia.BLI.COM>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!mordor!sri-spam!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!cbatt!ukma!sean
From: sean@ukma.ms.uky.csnet (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Imagen and DDL
Message-ID: <5309@ukma.ms.uky.csnet>
Date: Thu, 11-Dec-86 18:04:14 EST
Article-I.D.: ukma.5309
Posted: Thu Dec 11 18:04:14 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 14-Dec-86 14:59:36 EST
References: <1185@blia.BLI.COM>
Reply-To: sean@ukma.ms.uky.csnet (Sean Casey)
Organization: The Leaning Tower of Patterson Office @ The Univ. of KY
Lines: 16
Keywords: DDL Imagen

Reply to Parent Message