Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 21:08:04 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Ghulam Dastgir <banta@ghulam.force9.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fw: Printers Message-ID: <372FC424.22E943CF@3-cities.com> References: <01be96ba$b68b0480$LocalHost@signup>
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Ghulam Dastgir wrote: > > Hi Kent, > thanks for replying. Just to fill you in the main reason that I need a > postscript supported inkjet is to allow for the printing of postscript files > which are only viewable from Ghostview(right??). This is the only reason I > require a postscript printer. > The impression I get is that these postscript inkjets can be significantly > more expensive than normal inkjets. That is true. I was wrong on my HP-1600c because the SIMM with Poscript built into it has gone up to $699. > Stupid question: is there any way around printing postscript files from > Ghostview without resorting to one of these supposedly expensive > postscript/injet printers (like those from Lexmark that you suggested?). With a Postscript printer, you don't need Ghostscript. Ghostscript converts the Postscript into something an ordinary printer's understand. If you have one of the new printer's, there can be some flaws in the conveter. For example, we were trying to use Ghostscript to print a Postscript file an HP890. The file was a drawing of a vessel and the material that went into the vessel. Fill was used by the program to indicate material. The highest resolution converter for an HP inkjet was a color deskjet, which topped out at 300x300. The image wasn't bad but there was a flaw in the fill algorithim and there were a couple of white lines through the fill. If you dropped to 150x150, the lines were gone but the crisp structure was now replaced by the jaggies. With a postscript printer, we would have been able to tell the program to create a Postscript file at 600x600 and 16.7Million colors. The resulting impage could have been really high quality. They started out with a screen print and the move to 150x150 represented a tremendous step up but was still not something you would include in a letter to your project sponsor. You can find the source for each printer and fix it; however, we weren't hired to fix a printer driver. Kent > Thanks again, > Ghulam > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> > To: Ghulam Dastgir <banta@ghulam.force9.co.uk> > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Date: Sunday, May 02, 1999 10:17 AM > Subject: Re: Printers > > > > > > >> Ghulam Dastgir wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> I use FBSD 2.2.6 and am looking for a supported inkjet printer that > >> can also support POSTSCRIPT format. > >> Can you recommend any models?? > >> Thanks, > >> Ghulam > > > >I thought you were asking an impossible question. Postscript and > >Inkjet were not a likely choice in my mind. I have an HP1600c and for > >$500 US I could add Postscript 2. The world is going to Postscript 3 > >but that is a different problem. > > > >I was looking at PC Connection's catalog and found a couple. There are > >specific model's of LexMark Optra's and Xerox inkjet printers that > >have Postscript 2 built into them. None of the BJC, Epson, or HP > >inkjet's are listed with PostScript. The HP's are usually rated as > >having the most vibrant colors with a drop in resolution when you > >compare them to an Epson. When you get to doing image quality greater > >than 600x600 on an inkjet, life suddenly starts running very slowly. > >The old rule of you get two choices of speed, quality, and price still > >applies. > >-- > >Kent Stewart > >Richland, WA > > > >mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com > >http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html > > > >Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR > >http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html > > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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