| If you're thinking about phototype output for the future, consider
using a PostScript machine. Now that DOCUMENT supports PostScript
we can include graphics created on a wide range of systems that
output PostScript files (like GRED), and use our LPS40s as proofing
printers. Right now, Linotype is the only company that makes a
PostScript phototypesetter, but Compugraphic may be coming out with
one soon. There are also some high resolution PostScript laser
printers coming out, like the Compugraphic CG 400-PS at 400 dpi.
Later this spring Lintotype is supposed to announce a similar product
(with perhaps higher resolution?).
Another thing, for the price of an APS Micro-5G and a Bit Blaster,
you could buy *two* Linotype L300 typesetters, an LPS40, a top of
the line phototype paper processor, all the associated goodies,
and still have $30,000 left over.
Worth thinking about.
-- Craig
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| Support for those destinations is not part of the general internal
kit (and never was). The reason for that is that we don't own the
rights to the DVI driver for the APS micro-5 typesetter. Also, hooking
one of those typesetters up to a VAX and getting it to work is a royal pain,
and we didn't want to encourage customers to do so (that's why we didn't
buy the software and include it in the product.
--Brian
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