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From: sean@ukma.ms.uky.csnet (Sean Casey)
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Subject: Re: Imagen and DDL
Message-ID: <5309@ukma.ms.uky.csnet>
Date: Thu, 11-Dec-86 18:04:14 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 11 18:04:14 1986
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Reply-To: sean@ukma.ms.uky.csnet (Sean Casey)
Organization: The Leaning Tower of Patterson Office @ The Univ. of KY
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Keywords: DDL Imagen

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
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