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!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!laser-lovers From: laser-lovers@uw-beaver Newsgroups: fa.laser-lovers Subject: Re: Xerox Interpress Announcement Message-ID: <1344@uw-beaver> Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 03:16:40 EDT Article-I.D.: uw-beave.1344 Posted: Thu Jun 27 03:16:40 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Jun-85 01:28:39 EDT Sender: daemon@uw-beaver Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 27 From: Brian Reid[[Editor's note: The message below is in response to one from J. Nagle. That previous message contained an extract from an article in "Electronic News," Monday, June 24, 1985, titled "18 Firms Support Xerox Print Standard." I didn't forward that message to the entire list since it essentially duplicates the Xerox press release sent out earlier. However, Brian's message, below, raises the interesting question of what the announcement of "support" actually means---if anyone knows at what level these companies plan to support Interpress, please speak up. --Rick ]] "Xerox is making a set of documents describing Interpress available for $50 in single quantities. It is then up to the purchaser to implement Interpress." Ah, I had been wondering what strategy Xerox was going to use to get a working Interpress printer built. Since there isn't yet available an Interpress printer that implements a large enough subset of Interpress to print its own documentation, I knew they had to have some trick up their sleeve. Good work, Xerox! When in doubt, farm out! [As an aside to the skeptics of the network, I didn't see anywhere in that press release any statement that those companies would support Interpress to the exclusion of other schemes. I expect that several of them will support it by means of an Interpress-to-Postscript front end to their existing PostScript printer products.]