Duplex printer advice

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wojciech Puchar [mailto:wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 4:43 AM
> To: Ted Mittelstaedt
> Cc: Warren Block; FreeBSD Questions
> Subject: RE: Duplex printer advice
> 
> 
> >
> > You won't on an HP printer, at least not an older one.  Remember
> > that HP had to pay a very hefty fee to Adobe for licensing
> > PostScript for each printer.  HP did everything possible to push
> > PCL and discourage customers from selecting PS because they
> > did not want to continue to have to pay Adobe.  HP did not
> 
> well that make sense. anyway - idon't think that implementing postscript 
> processing (or any other language) in printers make sense at all.
> computers are powerfull, printer could just take a bitmap and print 
> it (and be cheaper).
> 

PostScript predates the existence of multi-gigahertz CPU screamers...

For simply printing graphics bitmaps your not using any of the
Postscript features and a binary dump to the printer is just as
useful.

But that is not what PostScript is all about.  Neither is PCL6
all about that, either.

> unfortunately such implementations are usually winprinters ...
> 

Uh, what exactly do you think that HP's Linux driver does that
supports many different models of HP desktop printers?  HP
wrote that....

Ted

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