Re: Any cheap postscript laser printers for linux ?

In article <slrnffbjjt.3qg.BobT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Bob Tennent wrote:
Your printer can interpret Postscript faster than your computer can run
ghostcript? I very much doubt that.
Its true. All of my Intel based boxen and the Darwin PPC
releases on my Imac G3/400 run WAYYYYY Slower than sending the raw
Postscript document to my Lexmark E232. I have tested it several ways
and on several processors from a Pentium 100 to a Pentium Celeron.
Simple text documents to fancy graphic layouts. Sending the raw
postscript to my Lexmark E232 is at least 4 times faster for text and
2 times faster in graphic intensive pages.
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.
Isn't that enough of a reason? Especially if your page layouts
are complex, and yes, having the printer do the "thinking" can be a
major time saver in Data movement.
Its just like using a WinModem, Wny have my main CPU do what
should be done by the device itself. Give the board/printer its
assignment and do other things while the task is being processed by
the device. When the device signals its done the task or an error,
then we service the device as required. Its like delegation of
authority in a business. And to me it makes more sense than having
the Computer become the "octopus" and make everything work via low
level software, just because my processor runs at 2.5 GHZ.
..
Thats not the UNIX/Linux way! If we want to use little
routines to break the work down. Why should we not consider giving the
specific work to the different devices and let them hash it out, thats
their purpose!

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