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>On Sun, 04 Feb 2001 Sivakatirswami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > printing options for classroom distribution, and most home printers now are
> > .ps enabled.
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>News to me. AFAIK, nearly all home printers are inkjets and there
>aren't any printers of that type that support PostScript. Even the
>majority of laser printers don't support PS but instead use PCL or
>some other proprietary language (PS being too expensive to license and
>requiring a lot more RAM and CPU power than the alternatives). Even
>that minority of laser printers that do support PS also have the
>proprietary language and are frequently set up such that they default
>to using the proprietary language unless you make some changes at the
>control panel. Or am I misinformed somehow?
Hardly, as the author of a different (not MetaCard based, C++)
program who's #1 support issue is printing (which is <1% of the
functionality...it was a convenience thing...), I can attest that (in
the US, Mac and Windows) most printers are NOT PS, especially home
printers and printers in schools (non-networked deals), and those
that are PS, can be set up in some really bizarre ways to produce
some really interesting printouts or lots of GPF's. And things like
Stylus RIP (a software package that translates PS to ink-jet code for
Epson Printers), are not really any better.
Mark J. Luetzelschwab [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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