From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 3 16:08:31 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D84031065676 for ; Tue, 3 Jun 2008 16:08:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A03798FC15 for ; Tue, 3 Jun 2008 16:08:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from TEDSDSK (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id m53G8RmZ073713; Tue, 3 Jun 2008 09:08:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Wojciech Puchar" Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 09:09:32 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1914 In-Reply-To: <20080603134043.H7375@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Importance: Normal X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]); Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:08:31 -0700 (PDT) Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: RE: Duplex printer advice X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:08:31 -0000 > -----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 >