From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 3 7:13:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8272137B41B for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 07:13:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=tanya.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16M9Yz-000Mai-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 03 Jan 2002 15:13:49 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (Postfix on SuSE Linux 7.3 (i386), from userid 500) id A8C421176; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 16:13:47 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 16:13:47 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printing Question Message-ID: <20020103151347.GB9291@raggedclown.net> References: <3C339CDA.C74F940A@vortex.wa4phy.net> <20020103111011.A1591@tisys.org> <3C347256.3990CC69@vortex.wa4phy.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C347256.3990CC69@vortex.wa4phy.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 10:01:42AM -0500, Sam Drinkard wrote: > Hi Nils, > > Well, it just seems kind of like beating around the bush to have to > go thru all the print gyrations to get a pcl output. I realize > apsfilter works, and works quite well, as I use it, but if you happen to > have a printer not supported by apsfilter, then what does one do? The > whole thougt was geared towards the direction that *BSD and Linux are > headed... The adoption of postscript has nothing to do with Linux or FreeBSD. Postscript is a programming language that structures a document in a device independent way. Hence, much in keeping with the Unix philosophy filters get written to turn it into something that can be printed on printers that do not contain the necessary bits to understand postscript directly. Postscript printers are expensive because they are in fact quite powerful computers in their own right. The one I use at work even has a website on it :) -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message