Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!bunker!stpstn!aad From: aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Talaris view of PostScript Message-ID: <1873@stpstn.UUCP> Date: 15 Jul 88 18:18:54 GMT References: <2273@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Reply-To: aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri) Organization: The Stepstone Corporation, Sandy Hook, CT Lines: 57 In article <2273@pt.cs.cmu.edu> moore@PULSAR.FAC.CS.CMU.EDU (Dale Moore) writes: > >Talaris - "The most common misconception that Talaris sees in the >marketplace today is that a PostScript printer is the panacea that >will solve all of the customer's problems. True enough. >PostScript not only >doesn't provide application software compatibility but it also was >not designed to operate efficiently in the multiuser computing >environment. I'd really love to hear an explanation of this one from them. >There is very little VAX/VMS software that supports >PostScript. WPS-Plus, for example, does not support PostScript. >Currently the only VAX/VMS application package that requires >PostScript is Interleaf. I'd say that *any* package that *required* *any* kind of a laser printer was a lose. Interleaf on our Suns works with an Imagen, but I didn't even know they had it for VMS. >Because PostScript was designed for single >user desktop publishing, integrating PostScript into a multiuser >VAX/VMS computing environment is acheived only at very high cost >(such as with the $50,000 Digital PS-40) or with major sacrifice in >performance." I'm sure you're all echoing "Huh?" with me. At Scribe Systems, we had a VMS machine spooling two Postscript engines, usually a laserwriter and a &$@$$* TI Omni. Ran lpd on the machine and spooled to them from pcs and suns. Sounds pretty good to me. You want a bigger printer, without paying for an imbedded microvax and DECnet dependency, get a Dataproducts or something. Good bit less than $50,000. > "The best approach is to purchasing a laser printer is to examine >your application first, the select the printer that provides the >throughput, functionality, connectivity and flexibility required to >support the application. If you know what application software you >will be using with the printer, then you have a head start. Find out >what the software vendor recommend. In the VAX environment, it >probably wont be a PostScript." Does the "VAX" environment (I assume they assume VAX==VMS), support their printers any better? My view of talaris printers is admittedly limited to one x2700-based machine, that had a proclivity for charring paper. It understood QUIC codes. (I'm not at all ragging on Dale; just making comments on comments) -- @disclaimer(Any concepts or opinions above are entirely mine, not those of my employer, my GIGI, or my 11/34) beak is beak is not Anthony A. Datri,SysAdmin,StepstoneCorporation,stpstn!aad