Scott Raney :
>
>
> 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?
> Regards,
> Scott
>
Actually, I think we're all right, simply because we're talking about
different things. It's true that most personal home printers aren't PS
(indeed it would be too expensive to license PS from Adobe).
But on the other hand, hundreds of small companies with a few networked
Macs & PCs, that are somehow involved in DTP / multimedia / production /
education / whatever have (at least) 1 or 2 PS printers on their network
(because it's one of their activity's requests). And THOSE companies
are my clients who pay for apps development on MC. And they're very
touchy about printing quality, and would NEVER accept prints of their logo
(for instance) with "jaggies"...
I'm wondering if it's not a mistake to focuse on this printing discussion,
and if it is not wiser to approach the subject from a more general viewpoint :
the request for a general purpose MC function to send / receive raw data
through the printer & modem ports (with various settings, to adapt to
different situations). Of course, that would include download of PS code...
Regards,
JB
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