Re: Any cheap postscript laser printers for linux ?

On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 18:04:14 GMT, B'ichela wrote:

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.

Your printer can interpret Postscript faster than your computer can run
ghostcript? I very much doubt that.

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!

Why do you think these properties of Postscript are lost if Postscript
is interpreted in the computer rather than the printer? Even assuming
the CPUs are of comparable speed, the only advantage I can see is that
less data might have to be sent down the wire.
.

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