Re: A PostScript printer at home ?

From: Linønut (linønut_at_bone.com)
Date: 10/18/04 

Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 20:12:01 -0500

ray poked his little head through the XP firewall and said:

> I don't, but let me fille in a little info for you. Most PostScript
> printers are lasers - there are some high end inkjets, as well. The
> inkjets are quite expensive and will be quite costly to operate. So, let's
> talk lasers. There are very few true PostScript printers available any
> more (probably due to licensing costs due Adobe); most run a PostScript
> emulator on top of another page description language, and are slower than
> molasses. New PostScript capable printers are expensive.

I can sort of vouch for this. Printing pages from my Linux laptop (using
enscript -- they were source-code modules) to a Windows printer was much
slower than printing them from Windows, and the reason was almost surely
Postscript processing. 

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