Re: Any cheap postscript laser printers for linux ?

Bob Tennent (BobT@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) writes:
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:31:22 +0100, Dave {Reply Address in.Sig} wrote:

>> Many HP Laserjet 4/5 have PostScript and/or network cards (I've got one)
>> and don't cost much more than a bare machine so are worth searching out.
>>
> Both my LJ4 and LJ5 have network and PostScript, the first one was by
> accident because I got it from a Mac user but the second one I actively
> looked for one with the PS module. During the lifetime of the first printer
> it's been used with OS/2, Windows, various Mac flavours and Linux, so
> having a nice simple PS driver helped a lot.

A network card is certainly useful. But why does a Postscript module
"help a lot"? I doubt there's any problem whatsoever printing to a PCL
printer on any of these systems.

I have an HP 4P that I bought for fifteen dollars about four years ago
at a Rotary Club garage sale. No Postscript module in that, and likely
it would cost me more to buy said module separately than I spent on
the printer.

I do have a much smaller laser printer intended for the Macintish, I
can't remember the manufacturer, and I barely used it (again, I got
it cheap at a rummage sale). It had built in Postscript.
It was terribly slow, which is why I didn't stick with it.

I suspect it's the Postscript bit that slows it down, since I
recall the big lag was in processing the pages before printing. And
given that I was used to dot matrix printers at the time, it had
to be really slow rather than "slow compared to something faster".

Michael

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