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- A few short answers:
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- > 1) How is the fastest way to print TIFF to post script? I'm looking
- > for the best procedure that produces the easiest to interpret
- > PS...it doesn't have to exist in a product.
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- Make sure you have a Postscript Level 2 printer, compress the image
- using CCITT Group 4, and finally send it to the printer using tiff2ps.
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- If that isn't fast enough, get a printer with a faster CPU or go for
- an accelerator board.
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- > 3) Are XIP Print boards a good printing solution? Any other vendor
- > boards? I also know that some QMS & XEROX printers can accept TIFFs
- > directly.
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- *All* level 2 printers accept CCITT/LZW/JPEG compressed data directly;
- check the sources for tiff2ps for ideas on how to utilize this when
- printing TIFF files. Packbits and other runlength encoding schemes
- are fairly simple to implement on level 1 printers as well.
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- > 4) Ever seen any printing solutions that only send the black part of
- > images to the printer?
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- Most compression methods compress black *and* white regions before
- sending them to the printer.
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- > 6) Is it possible to remove margins from an image and then save the
- > image with the original image size and then have a TIFF compliant
- > reader reconstruct the orginal image?
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- Nope. But if you use compression, this is not much of a problem.
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