Xerox Corp’s Xerox Engineering Systems in Rochester, New York has come out with the Xerox 8812 plotter, which Adobe Systems Inc says is the first computer-aided design desktop output device equipped with PostScript: the 400dpi 8812 can be used as a laser plotter for engineering and architectural renderings, and as a PostScript Level 2 desktop printer for documents that combine CAD drawings, text and graphics; it is bundled with 51 resident Type 1 fonts, Adobe Type Manager font scaling software, and print drivers that support both Macintosh and Windows systems; it costs $7,000 with the PostScript software and with one paper tray.
