TrueImage is a
PostScript-compatible interpreter (clone) originally developed by Cal Bauer and Bauer Enterprises and sold to
Microsoft in 1989.[1][2][3] Microsoft subsequently cross-licensed TrueImage to
Apple Computer in exchange for a
TrueType license.[4] After many delays, Microsoft finally delivered version 1.0 of TrueImage to Apple; Apple announced they would be licensing PostScript Level 2 from
Adobe Systems a few months later.[5][6]
Apple tried to build one product on TrueImage, but no TrueImage products were ever released by the company.[7] However, TrueImage was used in a variety of
laser printers, such as Abaton[8]Okidata[9] and LaserMaster[10][11] into the mid-1990s, with limited success.[citation needed]
^Abaton to Ship $2,995 Multiuser Laser Printer, By Kristi Coale, Page 24, InfoWorld 7 May 1990, ...The 300-dot-per-inch (dpi) printer is a Postscript clone based on the Microsoft/Bauer Postscript interpreter...