'Think Small' Is Service Bureau's Philosphy

"Laser Computer Graphics has been a heavy-iron shop since 1979," says Capodiferro. "We had a high-speed production environment with Xerox 8700 and 9700 laser printers. In 1997, we were about to spend $500,000 to install a new Xerox 4635 laser printing system when we got another idea."

As an experiment, Capodiferro married a 32 page-per-minute Xerox DocuPrint N32 network printer to a suite of document formatting and distribution applications called Paris. Paris allowed Laser Computer Graphics to process documents formatted in ASCII, EBCDIC and Xerox DJDE LCDS, and output them to the N32. The Paris suite, which runs on a Pentium PC with Windows 95 or NT, meant documents also could be edited and formatted online.