LaserWriter Plus

Eric Smith eric at brouhaha.com
Fri Apr 8 15:13:12 CDT 2005


Philip wrote:
> Doing PS rendering on the computer is not the same as having a PS printer.

True, there is a functional differences.  In my case, I've got a PCL-only
printer on one parallel port on a computer running Linux, and a Postcript
printer on another.  The print spooling system will automatically render
Postscript files into PCL as needed if I print them to the PCL-only printer.

The functional difference is that when I print complex Postscript documents
to the PCL-only printer, it is much *FASTER*.  The computer has a lot more
computons available for rendering than the Postscript printer does.

Eric



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