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From: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com>
To: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov>
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Subject: Re: Poscript on an Brother HL760 ?
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On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Sean Kelly wrote:
> > 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.
This is definately by only complaint with Ghostscript.. the fonts really
suck in a large way.. Are there any alternatives out there with better
fonts? Can you even purchase better fonts somewhere? I have a HP DeskJet
(660C) - is there a way I can get good looking fonts under FreeBSD, with a
PCL thingy? Lately, the only reason I boot WinNT is for printing - if I
had better printing under FreeBSD I'd probably newfs the NT drive and be a
happy camper :-)
TIA,
-Mark
>
> --
> Sean Kelly
> NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov
> Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/
>
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