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I've shopped for too many printers where all PostScript support means is you can shove PS into their front end driver.
by dv_dt 10y ago
I've shopped for too many printers where all PostScript support means is you can shove PS into their front end driver.
- wmf 10y agoWere those Ethernet or USB? AFAIK PostScript + Ethernet has always meant an internal RIP with no driver needed.
- dv_dt 10y agoAt this point, I don't recall - I've gone over to only buying network capable printers as they do tend to be better about their drivers (still need somthing usually) - but the ones I've been looking at lately seem to speak some dialect of PCL.
- _JamesA_ 10y agoThe same is true with "PCL3 GUI". It's like the "Win-modem" fiasco all over again.
- rahimnathwani 10y agoYou mean like winprinters (aka GDI printers): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Device_Interface#GDI_printers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Device_Interface#GDI_...
- jimjimjim 10y agowindows! same thing with XPS support in printers. most windows xps printer drivers just convert the xps into the printers native language. And maxing out one core for the exe that initiated the printing.