>If I understand it correctly, only very old legacy printers have the >Postscript "engine" in the printer itself. Modern Postscript printers do >the Postscript interpretation (rasterization) using a driver in the OS of >the motherboard, and send only the raster to the printer.
Not so. Plenty of printers have built in PostScript and if you want something that will work with OS 9 you will need one of those. The big change is that in the old days PostScript only came with expensive printers, today you can find it on some inexpensive printers. >HP PCL is pretty much standard (at several levels), just as Postscript is >(at several levels) and you might get something to work with HP PCL >(Hewlett Packard's Page Control Language, o/a) also. PCL is too driver dependent. Only PostScript provided a single software solution that could drive many different printers. With PostScript there was no need to load a driver for every printer. One universal driver worked with many, many printers. PCL won't solve the problem as stated. >In either case (Postscript or HP PCL), if I understand it correctly, with >all modern printers, the rasterization of the page is now done by the main >cpu using an OS driver, with only raster code being sent to the printer >(over the printer data cable or over the network via Ethernet). Nope. I bet you were a fan of WinModems too (same idea). ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
