Re: Any cheap postscript laser printers for linux ?

On 2007-09-22, B'ichela <mdalene@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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
You're right. But we were talking about older printers, such as the Laserjet
4. The emulator speed in those printers was considerally slower than
you printer. And it wouldn't have 80, but 8 MB ram memory. If that, could be
6 actually.

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!

I know. But that's supposing the printer can do it as fast as the computer.
Which is not the case of those old dino's.

And I agree that PS is cool. At least, it was, up to a point.
Lately, I've noticed a series of problems with it.
Imagine this:
- take a PDF document (PS inside, right?)
- open it with Acrobat Reader (from the people that created PS)
- print it to a varaity of PS printers (PS inside)
- get various problems
I've allways had all our company's printers setup in PS. Now, the latest
batch of multifonction machines take MINUTES to *start* printing a PDF. And
I tried it with Acrobat in both Windows and Linux. When I use kPDF, the jobs
gets out immedialtelly.

The problem seem to be linked to conflicting versions/interpretations of the
language.


PS: I read an article somewhere that there is a idea to replace PS with PDF
as job format.
Great. Why don't I slice my wrists right now? (down, not across)


Meanwhile, we're creating PCL queues for those 40 multifunction printers.
The other 200 are kepts as is, but at the slightest trouble...


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