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From: cnevin@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (Colette Nevin)
Subject: Re: Light Screens from DocuTech
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In article <Pine.GSO.3.95.961116184014.798A-100000@iglou2>, Barton
Chittenden <tiger@iglou.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Colette Nevin wrote:
> 
> > This is the first time I have seen any group that XDOD and Docutech
> > operators and administrators can use to compare notes.  We are the only
> > people who truly know (at least in this neck of the woods - Ontario) what
> > our equipment will or won't do.  Even Xerox support is shaky sometimes. 
> > If anyone finds a better site to share this information...will they please
> > let Richard De Visser and I know?
> 
> Colette:
> 
> What does XDOD stand for?

'Xerox Documents on Demand.'  We use a master scanning station to imput
hard copy format into TIFF and Postscript code.  Xerox uses RDO as its
file extension for storage purposes on the XDOD scanning station.  We send
the files (after cleanup and general organization) to the Docutech 6135
and Docutech 135 units for printing.  

Colette
> 
> In general:
> 
> Someone in one of the previous posts mentioned that the Docutech was a
> D machine. What does this stand for?
> 
> My own $.02:
> 
> I reccommend _Learning Postscript: A Visual Approach_ by Ross Smith
> (Peachpit Press 1990) as good reading :-). If you're running a networked
> DT or are using a Media Server, this little book gives thirty or forty
> small, powerful, useful  examples of postscript programs (with
> accompanying exposition). Each example program (save one or two in the
> appendix) is less than a page.
> 
> A few examples:
> 
> I wrote a program in C (could just as easily have used basic) to write a
> postscript file for setting up information on five part tabs. We get a lot
> of requests for books with tabs (as in "I want 'flight pubs', 'flight
> training' and 'maintanance training' on tabs, as indicated by the post it
> notes in the original..."). We used to print them out on the desk jet and
> paste them up by hand, but now I use my little program to set them up for
> me, and send them across to the Doc using XPPS.
> 
> I had a job once that consisted of printing up something akin to raffle
> tickets. They were three up and each one needed a number printed on the
> stub and the ticket its self. They needed ten thousand, each one with a
> different number. I set up the numbers in postscript, printed up three
> thousand odd sheets of tickets w/o numbers, and then ran the numbers onto
> the sheets like letterhead (I think I would have tried scanning the page
> in as a merge item, if i had it to do over agian).
> 
> I think I could even print up two or three part NCR with successive
> numbers, using a similar method, if I could run ordered stock from tray
> three (which I can't, but i'll try to find a way around that). 
> 
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