From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 13 08:00:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA04201 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 08:00:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov (gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.181]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA04193; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 08:00:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from cardinal.fsl.noaa.gov (daemon@cardinal.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.60.101]) by gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA09213; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 16:00:17 GMT Received: from auk.fsl.noaa.gov by cardinal.fsl.noaa.gov with SMTP (1.40.112.3/16.2) id AA169098815; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 16:00:15 GMT Message-Id: <3328248E.5F52@fsl.noaa.gov> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 09:00:14 -0700 From: Sean Kelly Organization: CIRA/NOAA X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; HP-UX B.10.10 9000/725) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Smith Cc: James FitzGibbon , questions@freebsd.org, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Poscript on an Brother HL760 ? References: <199703130613.QAA02843@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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. All true. Ghostscript, however, does not have a decent set of fonts. And I still use my Panasonic KXP-4455 (powered by a Motorola 68000 running at less than 7MHz or so, quite possibly the slowest PostScript printer in existence) to process PostScript output because it makes a Times Roman headline font look 100 times better than the public-domain Times Roman accompanying Ghostscript. -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/