VCF suggestions...

[Roger Merchberger]

Rumor has it that Paul Koning may have mentioned these words:
> >>>>> "Patrick" == Patrick Finnegan <pat at computer-refuge.org> writes:
>[snip]
>  >>
>  >> Digital presses use offset, too.  And "lithographic plates"
>  >> (offset printing plates) these days are made by digital processes.
>
>  Patrick> Digital *printing* (which is what I said above) doesn't.
>  Patrick> Well, at least the last time I checked, my Color LaserJet
>  Patrick> didn't look or sound much like a printing press. :)

Laser printers *are* offset printing; they just use toner & static 
electricity instead of ink and aluminium plates... The insides of a laser 
printer rather *do* look like a printing press, color lasers even more so. 
If you were to move the sheets via vacuum instead of friction, I dare say 
it would sound quite a bit more like a modern offset printing press... Now, 
a Kluge on the other hand... ;-)

I used a CompuGraphic PowerView 10 (and to a lesser extent, a 5) and a CG 
8216 film output device (now *that* was kewl!) with fonts on optical disc 
(no... not MO, actual analog letters with light shined thru 'em and lenses 
and... a bitch to use, but it was kewl!); later I used a CG 8400(IIRC?) 
digital output device with fonts on 5.25" floppy.

I wonder if they still have the old systems there... Anyone interested if 
they are? ;^>

>Digital printing is ambiguous.  To some it means xerographic printing;
>to others it means digital presses.  Generically it means a device
>where computer data goes in one end and paper with marks on it comes
>out the other.

Yup... that pretty much sums it up. ;-)

Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger

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