Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!agate!ig!uwmcsd1!bbn!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!PULSAR.FAC.CS.CMU.EDU!moore From: moore@PULSAR.FAC.CS.CMU.EDU (Dale Moore) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Talaris view of PostScript Message-ID: <2273@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Date: 14 Jul 88 17:59:15 GMT Sender: netnews@pt.cs.cmu.edu Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 37 Here is something that I found in a trade rag called Digital News July 11, 1988, page 67-69. I thought that it might make interesting and amusing reading. Portions of the article are copied here without permission. ---------------- The Art of Buying a Laser Printer ... To help you sort out the details, we also asked printer vendors about common misconceptions that buyers have and errors they make when evaluating laser printers. Among the responses received: ... 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. PostScript not only doesn't provide application software compatibility but it also was not designed to operate efficiently in the multiuser computing environment. 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. 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." "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."