A puzzling solution
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The IBM Solutionpac Personal Publishing Option-A offers Aldus's Pagemaker, Microsoft Windows 1.04, the IBM Personal Pageprinter 4216 with PostScript adapter card, and an IBM PS-2 mouse, but the user pays for this convenience with higher prices and a loss of flexibility. The $5,888 Solutionpac requires an IBM PS-2 with Micro Channel Architecture, DOS 3.3, 640Kbytes, and a hard disk. The core of the IBM system and its weakest part is the Pageprinter 4216 with the Pageprinter Adapter-A. It is flimsy and the reference manual conspicuously omits its rated monthly duty cycle. The PostScript circuitry makes it very fast, but, by placing the adapter in the computer rather than the printer, IBM has sacrificed versatility. Users who are looking for a prefigured and pretested publishing system might consider this system, but it would be easy to find better value and performance elsewhere.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1988
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Off-the-shelf workgroup publishing: Odesta's Document Management System challenges proprietary publishing systems
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Odesta Corp offers the 'most comprehensive and flexible' non-proprietary workgroup publishing system, Odesta Document Management System (ODMS), that enables multiple users on a local area network to use many off-the-shelf desktop publishing packages on varied hardware platforms. Microcomputer-based publishing systems are entering mainstream publishing. Such systems require a tool to store documents, organize and control document workflow, track the history of each document and illustrations, and provide appropriate tools for each step in the document layout and editing process. ODMS has these capabilities. The software consists of a data base server that manages a relational document data base and software that interacts with the data base for client workstations. Odesta does not have open pricing, but 'Publish' was quoted about $1,000 per user.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1991
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Personal Pageprinter redux
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IBM's Personal Pageprinter II Model 030 PostScript laser printer comes with Appletalk, serial and parallel ports. To test the Pageprinter's performance, it is compared to a GCC Technologies' $4,199 Business Laser Printer and Apple's $4,995 LaserWriter IINT. On a PC, Business Laser and Pageprinter's speeds are practically the same, while the Pageprinter ran a Pagemaker document 30 percent slower than the IINT and a Ventura Publisher document twice as fast as the IINT. On the Macintosh, all three printers have comparable speeds on the Pagemaker document. Pageprinter's type is less sharp than the IINT but comes with 43 built-in typefaces compared to Business Laser's 39 and IINT's 35. A Windows screen fonts for all 43 typefaces are included on the pageprinter as well as HP Laserjet Plus and IBM Proprinter XL emulation features.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1989
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