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From: laser-lovers@uw-beaver
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Subject: Re: Xerox Interpress Announcement
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Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 03:16:40 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 27 03:16:40 1985
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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.]