From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 12 22:14:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA07592 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 22:14:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA07556; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 22:14:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id QAA02843; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 16:43:18 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199703130613.QAA02843@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Poscript on an Brother HL760 ? In-Reply-To: from James FitzGibbon at "Mar 12, 97 11:46:22 pm" To: james@nexis.net (James FitzGibbon) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 16:43:18 +1030 (CST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk James FitzGibbon stands accused of saying: > > I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who has had any luck getting postcript > output working on a Brother HL-760 printer. The short answer: don't bother. > Suggestions are appreciated. The long answer; if the printer supports a decent bitmap emulation (CAPSL, PCL5 etc.), use ghostscript and apsfilter. Most 'postscript' printers are slow and stupid. Ghostscript OTOH gets to run on your CPU (how many Pentium-powered printers?) and you can update it as postscript conventions change. > j. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[