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It can't require too much processing, Postscript printers were a thing decades ago...
by joosters 6y ago
It can't require too much processing, Postscript printers were a thing decades ago...
- barrkel 6y agoYou underestimate how much printer manufacturers would like to shave from their hardware costs. Besides, Postscript can be arbitrarily complex, and with modern PCs, PDFs may be similarly complex. Much easier to deal with that (both bugs and memory costs) in a driver which can be upgraded easily, rather than in firmware. Way back when, in the early days of laser printers, the computer wouldn't be able to keep up with the printer, and a decent printer had a faster CPU than the computer it was attached to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserWriter#Hardware https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserWriter#Hardware - 12MHz CPU in the printer, attached to an 8MHz CPU in the Mac.