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systems in use at the time. Although too expensive for homes or most offices, but cheaper than many other alternatives of printing, it was the graphic designer's dream: output by taking a
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for most combinatorial logic, with the subsystem timing, DRAM refreshing, and rasterization functions being implemented in very few medium-integration PALs. Apple's competitors (i.e.,
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Adobe's RIPs have, generally, been named for United States rockets (Atlas, Redstone, etcetera), but Apple's RIP was of its own design, and was implemented using remarkably few
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usage of PostScript, which began the emergence of graphics applications dominance by Adobe, the first
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implementation of PostScript, with a special video output interface to the imagesetter.
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language files to be imaged by the Linotronic imagesetter. Although it was the first
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The latest RIPs are stand-alone fast PCs executing an
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to cheaply set type that exceeded the quality of many
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list of references
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inline citations
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introducing
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neutrality
disputed
talk page
conditions to do so are met
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imagesetters
printer
dots per inch
graphic artists
phototypesetting
PostScript
service bureau
Mergenthaler Linotype Company
Adobe
RIP
PostScript
Apple Laserwriter
integrated circuits
PALs
QMS
NEC
Texas Instruments
x86

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