4 Aug
2005
4 Aug
'05
2:57 p.m.
Rumor has it that Paul Koning may have mentioned these words:
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? ;^>
>>>> "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. :) 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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