Re: Any cheap postscript laser printers for linux ?

In article <rqafs4-lf3.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Rikishi 42 wrote:
Allmost all HP Laserjet printers are based on PCL. Since the Laserjet 4
generation, more and more of them were sold with PostScript support.
It may work very well, but in all but the absolute last generations the PCL
printouts are faster.

Best to use the native PCL. The printer'll have less work, and you compter
has plenty of memory and CPU to deal with that.
I disagree as you actually pointed out below.
I don't think you should apply a Linux way of thinking to a Windows
Lets reverse that for this argument. "I don't think you should apply a
windows way of thinking to Linux". Why do you want to onload all of
the conversion on the CPU when you can avoid it? My Lexmark E232 has a
faster Postscript emulator in the printer than I get from running
Postscript -> ghostscript -> printer (pcl) -> page. My Lexmark is now
maxed out at 80MB and works very well. it also works wonderful with my
Imac G3/400 both under Debian Sarge (ppc version) and MacOs 9.2.2. One
of the features of Postscript (in any form) is to allow the printer to
do the final processing instead of the computer telling the printer to
do all the steps. Granted most people don't use postscript to its
maximum potential but it can do more than just print pages. Its a
computer in a printer using a high level language (its similar to
Forth btw). that can even do mathamatics! Thats right, give it the
forumulas and the details on how to display the results and the
printer will do the math, print the results as you wanted them
printed! How cool is that? REALLY COOL!

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