Re: Any cheap postscript laser printers for linux ?

In article <slrnffbjjt.3qg.BobT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Bob Tennent <rdtennent@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.

It only needs to be fast enough to keep the print engine running at full
speed. There's a PostScript ray-tracing demo (try writing a ray-tracer in
PCL :-) ) that runs much faster on my computer than it does in a printer.
That's not the kind of job most people run on a regular basis, though. For
the typical print job (text, maybe with some simple graphics or one or two
small photos), a printer's built-in PostScript will be fast enough.

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