Re: Printer recommendation
- From: ray <ray@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 22:07:25 -0700
On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 20:36:43 -0800, Larry Blanchard wrote:
ray wrote:
It is incredibly difficult to get a printer that runs native postscript -
and they are expensive. Most run PS as an emulation layer over their
native language and are much slower as a result - best to use the native
language instead.
The Brother laser printers run PS, but I don't know if native or emulation. I
do know they're not all that expensive and mine (HL5250DN) seems more than
fast enough for me. Of course, it's B&W so that may explain the speed.
Hint: there are no inexpensive true PostScript printers. And if it is a
true PS printer, it will probably not have any other printer language
(like PCL) available. I expect it runs PS over PCL. If you were to try a
test on a complicated graphic page printing it both ways, I expect you'd
find that it takes about 2.5 - 3 times as long to render under PS. Several
years ago I did pretty exhaustive research into laser printers, rendering,
etc. Fastest thing I could find then was a Lexmark with a fairly high
speed CPU. It was several times faster than the 'state of the art' HP
available at that time when they were both doing PS. It was only about 1.5
times faster when the HP did PCL.
.
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