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- Have you looked into Talaris System Inc's printers? They take tiff
- directly without any kinda postscript or a wrapper. They can print
- ~70kb/page at 32ppm letter size images. The scaling is also done
- automaticaly.
-
- Call 619-587-0787 for more info or send me e-mail.
-
- Forwarded message:
- > From owner-tiff@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Mon Dec 19 00:06:35 1994
- > Date: Mon, 19 Dec 1994 08:04:16 +0100
- > Message-Id: <9412190704.AA04571@kalle.teragon.ivab.se>
- > To: BRADY_CLARK_D@Lilly.com
- > Cc: tiff@sgi.com, BRADY_CLARK_D@Lilly.com
- > In-Reply-To: <MAILQUEUE-102.941219060846.416@delkp1.doceye.ivab.se> (message from BRADY CLARK D on Mon, 19 Dec 1994 03:05:09 +0000 (GMT))
- > Subject: Re: TIFF Printing and Storage Optimization
- > Reply-To: fredrik_lundh@ivab.se
- > From: Fredrik Lundh <Fredrik_Lundh@IVAB.SE>
- > Sender: owner-tiff@sgi.com
- > Precedence: bulk
- >
- >
- >
- > A few short answers:
- >
- > > 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.
- >
- > 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.
- >
- > If that isn't fast enough, get a printer with a faster CPU or go for
- > an accelerator board.
- >
- >
- > > 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.
- >
- > *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.
- >
- >
- > > 4) Ever seen any printing solutions that only send the black part of
- > > images to the printer?
- >
- > Most compression methods compress black *and* white regions before
- > sending them to the printer.
- >
- >
- > > 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?
- >
- > Nope. But if you use compression, this is not much of a problem.
- >
- > /F
- >
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- Baljit S Toor Internet: billy@talaris.com
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- -- People say money talks, mine just walks away --
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