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From: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Host software alternatives to PS engines?
Summary: GoScript, a $195 package for IBM PCs and Clones - more info
Keywords: Postscript Emulation GoScript
Message-ID: <902@skinner.nprdc.arpa>
Date: 20 Sep 88 03:18:30 GMT
References:  <887@skinner.nprdc.arpa>
Reply-To: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Organization: Navy Personnel R&D Center, San Diego
Lines: 73

In article <887@skinner.nprdc.arpa> malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy) writes:
|In article  bob+@andrew.cmu.edu (Bob Sidebotham) writes:
|>For people with relatively modest volume printing requirements, it would seem
|>ideal to be able to buy a cheap printing engine, without PostScript support,
|>and do the PostScript to raster conversion in the host computer.  Does anyone
|>know if there is any such product on the market, or anticipated to be? . . .
|
|There is a company here in San Diego (unfortunately, I've misplaced
|the flyer I picked up at the San Diego Computer Fair over Labor Day
|Weekend -- I'll find it this weekend and post the information) that
|makes a product called 'GoScript' for IBM PCs and clones. This is an
|entirely software-based Postscript-compatible interpreter that will
|output to many dot-matrix and laser printers, and a number of
|plotters. The program uses Bitstream's soft font packages, so adding
|fonts to the output should be simple.

Okay, here's the information from the flyer I picked up:

The company is called LaserGo; their address is 9235 Trade Place,
Suite A, San Diego, CA 92126. Their phone number is (619)530-2400.
They maintain an RBBS bulletin board, 300/1200 baud; the number is
(619)530-0013.

o	13 outline fonts licensed from Bitstream
o	Courier, Dutch, Swiss, Symbol typefaces compatible with Apple
	Laserwriter fonts (the Courier, Helvetica, Times, and Symbol
	font equivalents -- SRM)
o	Fonts that can be scaled to any size and rotated to any angle
o	Text and graphic element manipulation: rotation + scaling +
	special effects
o	Continue to use printer for applications not requiring a page
	decription language
o	Use in both command and interactive mode
o	Takes advantage of expanded memory and numeric processor if
	available
o	Printers supported:
	HP LaserJet family & compatibles
	HP Deskjet
	Canon LBP-8II
	Canon Bubble Jet BJ-130
	LaserGo GoCard controller
	Epson FX & LQ series dot matrix & compatibles
	IBM ProPrinter
	. . . and others (unfortunately, the person manning the booth
	didn't know what others -- SRM)
o	Compatible with: Xerox Ventura Publisher, Microsoft Word,
	Aldus PageMaker, Borland Quattro, and others

System Requirements:
o  IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible, or IBM PS/2, running PC/MS-DOS 3.0 or
   later
o  640Kb of memory and a hard disk
o  Optional: 1Mb or 2Mb expanded memory in PC; numeric coprocessor

GoScript builds the page image on your hard disk, or can be installed
to use LIM expanded memory, then outputs the final graphics image in
your printer's graphics mode. GoScript will take advantage of a
numeric coprocessor if one is installed to speed computation of the
page image.

GoScript is listed for $195.00; a companion product, the GoCard, is a
card that speeds transfer of bitmap images to Canon engine-based laser
printers, and will work for other applications as well as GoScript.
The GoCard lists for $349.00. An additional software package, LaserGL,
lists for $95.00 and enables GoScript to output to HPGL-compatible
plotters. Orders within California add 6.5% tax; shipping is  $5.00
per order. COD, VISA, MasterCard, and checks are accepted.



	Sean Malloy
	Navy Personnel Research & Development Center
	San Diego, CA 92152-6800
	malloy@nprdc.arpa