PNPS Announcement

[diekmann _at__ merlin.physik.uni-oldenburg.DE (Bernd Diekmann)]

Ladies and gentlemen, dear Colleagues,

I would like to inform you about a new service which is still
under developement, Printing from the Internet on Demand.
I would be glad if You would respond answering a few questions and thus
get a free try during the test-period.

The service "Printing On Demand" will be a new Internet commercial service
by Rank Xerox International XBS, where we are endelved in the development
to serve the world of electronically available  documents.
The aim is to set up a professional printing, binding and mailing service of
internet documents. All avaible documents can be ordered
in a high quality form (i.e.\ book format, printing including high colour
graphics, and binding). This service
should be an interesting supplementary service to all electronic 
document-stores like e-print services or local WWW-Servers.

The experimental service is reachable in the WWW with the URL
       http://alice.physik.uni-oldenburg.de/rxp/

It will give you black-and white printing, basic binding and air mail sending
of Internet documents restrictedly for free during the test-period.

You may have to be patient during the first days of global accesses,
Christmas holidays starting here, and the change to a 2 MB access in January.
Please report any problems.

To adapt the service to Your needs we would be very glad if you 
answer a few questions. You may also forward this mail
to additional persons. 
You may either send us your comments or just answer
behind the line starting with "[". You may also use multiple
choices for some questions.

i.e.:
[0:2                  For answer number 2, question number 0


Let us start:
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1. Such a service is useful:             1) totally right
                                         2)         right
[1:                                      3)         o.k.
                                         4)         wrong
                                         5) totally wrong
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2. Which file-formats should be processed (multiple choicses):
                           1) TeX
                           2) dvi
                           3) ps
                           4) pdf
                           5) html
                           6) html with included pictures
                           7) all data in a compressed form
[2A:
[2B: others: ...
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3. Which facilities should be integrated ? (multiple choises)
                           1) Colored printing
                           2) Printing on foils
                           3) Book-bindings
                           4) double sided printing
[3A:
[3B: others: ...
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4. How long would You wait for such a printed document (in normal
circumstances) ?
                           1) less than 24 hours
                           2) less than 36 hours
                           3) less than 48 hours
                           4) less than 72 hours
[4:
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5. What conveniences should be important to you:
                      1) sending copies of one document to several addresses
                      2) printout also of local files
                      3) print a bunch of files in one volume.
[5:
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Thank you very much for your effort answering these questions,
you only have to fill in the numbers of the answers and forward
this mail (or the area between the "====" lines) to

rxp _at__ alice.physik.uni-oldenburg.de


thank you, B. Diekmann diekmann _at__ merlin.physik.uni-oldenburg.de



This service has been developed at the 

Department of Physics, Theoretical Physics III (Prof. Dr. E. R. Hilf)
Carl von Ossietzky University 
Oldenburg
26111 Oldenburg, Germany
            by
Bernd Diekmann and Heinrich Stamerjohanns

in cooperation with Rank Xerox XBS