Hmmm, yes, fair enough. I suppose what I'm trying to work out is whether the postscript interpreter in certain printers is at fault or if the actual postscript that I'm printing is. I realise it's a difficult thing to tell.
Logic and my experience indicate that the answer to your question is "yes".
Adobe controls the PostScript spec and many of the applications which generate PostScript. HP and Lexmark do not use the official Adobe PostScript interpreter in their printers - they have written their own interpreters. This is called "PostScript emulation". PostScript is not completely defined by its spec - it is also defined by how applications use it. No matter how carefully someone emulates PostScript, an application can use perfectly legal code in such a way as to make an interpreter fail.
My experience is that when we started using Xerox printers, which use a licensed Adobe PostScript interpreter, many of our printing problems disappeared.
-Rick
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