Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uw-beaver Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!ahuta!houti!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!laser-lovers From: laser-lovers@uw-beaver Newsgroups: fa.laser-lovers Subject: Re: Xerox 9700 Message-ID: <133@uw-beaver> Date: Sat, 8-Dec-84 03:21:48 EST Article-I.D.: uw-beave.133 Posted: Sat Dec 8 03:21:48 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Dec-84 03:52:56 EST Sender: daemon@uw-beaver Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 28 From: decvax!esquire!newman@uw-beaver.arpa Troff can also be made to work with the 9700. However, one must get a META-CODE agreement from Xerox to do so. We have been using the 9700's to do typesetting for four years here by first writing our own code and then purchasing a more sophisticated package from a consultant. The limitation with the 9700's in typesetting is the extremely limited font memory. Right now you have room for about 7 of the high quality Merganthaler Fonts. However, it seems that with the next release of software, one will be able to replace fonts in the font memory AFTER the job starts and thus increase the number of fonts available in each job. The new software also will support new font memory which will increase storage from 1024 K-bits to either 8 or 16 Mega-bits. Note: this is font memory to be used in each job, not the total font storage of the machine. Finally, I haven't heard of a higher resolution Xerox machine and I would doubt an early release of one. Xerox has standardized so far on 300 DPI and has made a heavy investment in good fonts for these machines. However, they have released the 9700 MODEL 5, which upgrades the Xerographic engine to the 9500 copier engine. We just had ours upgraded to this last week and it is bea-yoo-ti-full. Edmund Newman Davis Polk & Wardwell 1-212-530-4420