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.

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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
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