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Is it really "InterPress"? I thought it was "Interpress" (with a lowercase 'p').

Actually, as the last of the "Interpress" software engineers, I can verify that it is lowercase 'p'. I hope to add more to this page soon. Gmb14502 20:47, 6 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The third external reference link (http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/xns/standards/XSIG_038306_Introduction_to_Interpress_Jun1983.pdf) returns 404 now. 76.145.9.182 (talk) 16:00, 4 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"... is supported in Xerox Ventura Publisher"

Sure sounds like Interpress is a thing in use, doesn't it? Until you look up VP and find out the final release was in 2002. And the references are from the 1980s. So is Interpress still relevant, or is it some dusty tech that hasn't been used for decades? The article doesn't give a clue. 2A02:AA1:1626:E371:C0D9:8F95:ED37:A646 (talk) 15:22, 22 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

CaesarFMChavez. As a former Xerox engineer, and actively worked on Interpress and PostScript testing at Xerox and in consultation at another printer company, it is doubtful if there is a printer built after about 1990 that accepts Interpress. The Interpress book can still be found on Amazon: Interpress, the source book, by Brady Book. Softbound. Jan 1, 1988. I was one of the authors. But shortly after its publication, even Xerox was forced to yield to PostScript, which the company eventually put on all their printers. Interpress like other Xerox and HP eventually antiquated languages, continued to appear on those printers until they were gradually phased out. Caesarfmchavez (talk) 21:53, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

DocuTech Network Production Publisher (models 90 and 135) were the last official products developed by Xerox in Building 129 (Webster, NY) launched in September 1992 where I was the last to implement in MESA (a proprietary software development language) on the internal 6085 Workstation which used XDE 14.0 platform for development. The DocuTech had a 2 phase system. The 'PreParser' component in which I was assigned, took the Interpress file and parsed it converting it to an "Internal Interpress" or IPP. The IPP was a simplified short-hand version of the Interpress which the 'PostParser" was able to convert to a raster image and print. The purpose of the two stage process was so that the image file could be reprinted by a user over and over from the DocuTech GUI allowing faster processing. Users could send an Interpress Document (from ViewPoint or GlobalView or Ventura Publisher) and then reprint or even edit the pages, on the GUI using tools from the CutNPaste internal GUI system. The user could also adjust the media, add booklet finishing, stapling, or covers. In 1995, the Novell Network Server was developed so that Adobe PostScript 3.0 files could be sent to the DocuTech making it available for all non-Interpress emitters. Advanced Hi-Tech (AHT/ENTIRE) also created a server called FIBREGateway/Squadron which was developed for the SunSPARC V workstation which used a generic PostScript (JAWS RIP by Xionics eventually bought by Global Graphics). The FIBREGateway was much faster than the Novell Network Server and more versatile as it also provided support to Océ, Kodak Digimaster Production Printer and others. Gmb14502 (talk) 08:08, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Caesarfmchavez: The article also does not reflect some of the controversy that occurred as Postscript was born out of, or rather wrenched from Interpress, depending on who one spoke with. Xerox PARC invented Windows, but the "toner heads" did not hold on to it. Likewise, it seems that the Xerox "toner heads" (copier folks) did not think retaining ownership of Interpress was all that important. Adobe Systems, Apple and Microsoft were all built on Xerox products... But the American trust laws were partially responsible for Xerox's eventual downgrade... Caesarfmchavez (talk) 22:00, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]