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From: Craig Jackson <CRAIGJ@epub.ziff.com>
Subject: Re: printing tiff
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There is indeed such a thing as a TIFF printer.  Xionics markets a board
which replaces the serial/parallel interface board in the printer.  It
looks for a TIFF header in the print stream on the fly.  If it finds
something that looks like a TIFF header, it treats the next bytes as a
binary TIFF file, and prints it.  The TIFF decode and decompression is done
in hardware on the board.  This is probably one of the fastest ways to
print a bit image, as it is delivered to the printer in compressed binary.

Now, you'll want a way to contact Xionics.  Well, I don't know it.  I've
dealt with the company that makes the boards for Xionics, and I saw the
boards in a Xionics boot

Craig Jackson
craigj@epub.ziff.com
Electronic Publishing,
Information Access Company

