On Tue 10 Jul 2018 at 14:20:50 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 12:53:20PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 09 Jul 2018 at 19:05:52 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 06:53:44PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 06:39:29PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > > You're both missing the main point, which is that a Brother > > > > > printer with BRscript/3 is essentially a Postscript printer, and > > > > > you can treat it as one. No drivers needed. > > > > I'm not really interested in a PostScript printer per se, but in a > > printer that handles PDFs natively. Is this the same thing? > > No, but PDF is a simplified, compressed PostScript. It's very > little work for your Debian machine to take a PDF, decapsulate > it and send it off to a PostScript printer. (In this case, a > clone of PostScript.)
"decapsulates"? Please explain; it is a term I've not encountered in relation to printers. (The query was about printers which *natively* accept a PDF and just print it without any CUPS involvement). > > That's the sort of thing, but I'm used to it writing the files > > onto a USB stick (and prefer that). > > Most of them do that, too. Most printers on Debian do what? -- Brian.
