Re: WARNING to potential LINUX users

From: Scott Lurndal (scott_at_slp53.sl.home)
Date: 10/11/04 

Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:35:00 GMT

unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca (Bill Unruh) writes:
>markzoom@digiverse.net (markzoom) writes:
>
>]scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) wrote in message news:<j_C9d.1068$6q2.177@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com>...
>]> markzoom@digiverse.net (markzoom) writes:
>]> [*] The lexmark high-end printers all do have linux support (because they
>]> have built-in Postscript and/or PCL support). But note that Lexmark must
>]> pay royalties to Adobe for PS and probably HP for PCL, thus these
>]> printers will necessarily be more expensive.
>
>No. The postscript is their own interpreter, not Adobe's.

Bill,

 (any relation to Jim?)

I believe it is the language that they must pay royalties to Adobe for, not the
implementation of the language.

>]>
>]> What makes you think the cost of providing a linux driver for a
>]> Lexmark printer is next to zilch?
>
>Because it is. they have already done the work in the windows drivers.
>
>The driver for windows and for Linux are not that different.

Not at all the case, I'm afraid. See other responses for more detail.

>You put the driver into ghostscript and it works with all Linux distros.
>And nothing needs to be done about cups or lprng or whatever. It IS now a
>postscript printer.

You don't appreciate the realities of producing product for sale, it
seems. Putting the driver into ghostscript may not be possible - in
particular if the communications to the printer engine are real-time
and the conseqences of a failure to communicate will kill the print
job.

scott

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Relevant Pages

  • Re: "Access Denied"
    ... uses the Generic Text/Only driver. ... allowing spooling on every printer on that port. ... Are you taking a PostScript ... If you *want* your output to bypass the driver, and language monitor, use ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.print_fax)
  • Re: "Access Denied"
    ... That's interetsing, I have never had a problem calling StartDocPrinter(), ... uses the Generic Text/Only driver. ... Are you taking a PostScript ... If you *want* your output to bypass the driver, and language monitor, ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.print_fax)
  • Re: "Access Denied"
    ... If you *want* your output to bypass the driver, and language monitor, use ... If you wish to use the printer driver, but also inject some PostScript data ... The printer having a PostScript language interpreter ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.print_fax)
  • Re: "Access Denied"
    ... Are you taking a PostScript ... This is easier than writing a driver and trying ... If you *want* your output to bypass the driver, and language monitor, use ... The printer having a PostScript language interpreter ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.print_fax)
  • Re: Display postscript
    ... Imagine if your window server used BASIC as its ... ken> drawing language. ... I said 'by comparison to most windowing systems'. ... Postscript) are much more compact than the low-level, ...
    (comp.lang.postscript)