With these objectives in mind, a high end Macintosh with a variety of drawing and graphing tools, two 600x600 dpi laser printers, and a Tektronix 300x600 dpi thermal wax printer have been installed. The Sun workstations and the Macin-tosh can print to any of the SRAC printers. Tekplot, a 2D and 3D X window based interactive graphing package is available on the Suns. The Tektronix color printer can be be accessed from the Sun workstations via a X window based program called Tekprint. This program provides the user with a simple interface for handling the printing.
Researchers can use color in their graphical representation of the results of their research.
The printer can then be used to prepare color plots for documentation and color transparencies for presentations.