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From: billy@talaris.com (Baljit Toor)
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Subject: Re: TIFF Printing and Storage Optimization (fwd)
To: BRADY_CLARK_D@Lilly.com
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 94 9:22:52 PST
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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.

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> From owner-tiff@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Mon Dec 19 00:06:35 1994
> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 1994 08:04:16 +0100
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> 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>
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> 
> 
> 
> 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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