Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 11:10:11 +0100 From: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> To: Sam Drinkard <sam@wa4phy.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printing Question Message-ID: <20020103111011.A1591@tisys.org> In-Reply-To: <3C339CDA.C74F940A@vortex.wa4phy.net>; from sam@wa4phy.net on Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 06:50:50PM -0500 References: <3C339CDA.C74F940A@vortex.wa4phy.net>
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On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 06:50:50PM -0500, Sam Drinkard stood up and spoke: > Having been indoctrinated to Unix some good many years ago with SysV > (Interactive 2.01), I have over the years wondered *WHY*, if in a modern > environment the print language of Unix has not changed from postscript > to PCL, or other language common to today's printers. Granted, the > print converters and postscript interpreters are pretty good, it would > appear to me that maybe with all the gui changes that have occured to > both *BSD and Linux, there should be native support for these > printers.. (Ever try to find an inexpensive PS printer nowdays?) Just > a wild thought.. anybody care to share your thoughts? Well, what's the problem with the way it is? Using apsfilter and ghostscript, I don't see a difference when using my HP Deskjet 930C (PCL printer) vs. a "real" Postscript printer. I simply do something like "cat <file> | lpr -Plp" and it gets printed on my Deskjet. In X I simply click the "Print" button in whatever application I'm using. I guess that if I had a genunie Postscript printer, I'd do actually the very same. So, besides the need to set up apsfilter / ghostscript properly for my printer once, I don't see much disadvantages / problems with having a non-ps printer, and therefore I also don't see a problem that the native printing language on UNIX Systems is PS. Greetings Nils -- Nils Holland Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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