SOME HP printers use licensed PS. Generally expensive ones. According to the front of my HP DJ 800ps, it uses Adobe PS3. Haven't seen a similar sticker on anything else of theirs in quite awhile though.
I'm aching for some Xerox printers over here. ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | | Ryan Novosielski - Jr. UNIX Systems Admin |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent. | IST/ACS - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Rick Cochran wrote: > Toby Blake wrote: > > 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 > > -- > |Rick Cochran phone: 607-255-7618| > |Cornell CIT - Systems & Operations - Net-Print FAX: 607-255-8521| > |730 Rhodes Hall, Ithaca, N.Y. 14853 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST > The address you post from MUST be your subscription address > > If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests > or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, > to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with: | example: > subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] > unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word > LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
