Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 09:09:32 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Wojciech Puchar" <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Duplex printer advice Message-ID: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCKELGCFAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20080603134043.H7375@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Wojciech Puchar [mailto:wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl] > Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 4:43 AM > To: Ted Mittelstaedt > Cc: Warren Block; FreeBSD Questions > Subject: RE: Duplex printer advice > > > > > > You won't on an HP printer, at least not an older one. Remember > > that HP had to pay a very hefty fee to Adobe for licensing > > PostScript for each printer. HP did everything possible to push > > PCL and discourage customers from selecting PS because they > > did not want to continue to have to pay Adobe. HP did not > > well that make sense. anyway - idon't think that implementing postscript > processing (or any other language) in printers make sense at all. > computers are powerfull, printer could just take a bitmap and print > it (and be cheaper). > PostScript predates the existence of multi-gigahertz CPU screamers... For simply printing graphics bitmaps your not using any of the Postscript features and a binary dump to the printer is just as useful. But that is not what PostScript is all about. Neither is PCL6 all about that, either. > unfortunately such implementations are usually winprinters ... > Uh, what exactly do you think that HP's Linux driver does that supports many different models of HP desktop printers? HP wrote that.... Ted >
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