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From: laser-lovers@uw-beaver (laser-lovers)
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Subject: Re: Talaris Systems.
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Date: Thu, 11-Oct-84 12:56:32 EDT
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From: tektronix!tekred!billr@uw-beaver.arpa
We have a Talaris 1200 laser printer running on our pdp11/70
(2.9bsd).  Being the first pdp11 site to run their troff
support software (they only guaranteed it would work on a Vax),
we had some initial software conversion problems and font file
problems, but it is all working now.

It comes with 9 standard fonts in ROM and other fonts online
that are downloaded to the controller as needed.  The troff support
s/w includes a cat to qms conversion program and all the
troff font sizes (6pt to 36pt) in Roman, Bold, Italic and
Special.  In addition you have the choice of a serif or
san-serif font style.

The print quality is excellent.  I think it is much better than
the Symbolics LGP1200 (Canon based) printer.

The Talaris/QMS software was the only one we had a chance of
being able to run on a pdp.  Their software and hardware
support has also been very responsive.

Now if I can just get the QMSPLOT package to fit on our pdp,
I'll be happy.