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From: deke@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: what about color laser printers?
Keywords: LaserWriter, PostScript
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Date: 8 Dec 88 18:10:31 GMT
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Reply-To: deke@ee.rochester.edu (Dikran Kassabian)
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In article <6385@pogo.GPID.TEK.COM> curtj@pogo.GPID.TEK.COM writes:
>In article <4338@homxc.UUCP> mlm@homxc.UUCP writes:
>>Does anyone out there use or know of a color slide or transparency machine
>>that knows PostScript.
>
>	Tektronix Phaser CP.  It was announced at COMDEX.. It's a 300 DPI
>	color printer with both a Color PostScript Compatible interpreter as
>	well as an HPGL interface.  It can print on both paper and trans-
>	parencies.
>
>	At this point in time, it requires a PC and an expansion board,
>	which fits into the PC.

Sounds like the "Color PostScript Compatible interpreter" is on the PC board.
Is that right?  What about a *color* output device that like a LaserWriter, 
interprets PostScript onboard?  Not an ink-jet or a color thermal transfer,
but a Cannon-engine type device.  Do they exist?

It seems to me that there is a sizeable market out here waiting for the "right"
solution.  Is there anyone from Adobe, Cannon, or Apple listening that would 
care to comment?

      ^Deke Kassabian,   deke@ee.rochester.edu   or   ur-valhalla!deke
   Univ of Rochester, Dept of EE, Rochester, NY 14627     (+1 716-275-3106)