It cost money to license Also the only decent-performance chips doing it were from Adobe, and they weren't cheap. At the time, this would have pretty much cut

It cost money to license Also the only decent-performance chips doing it were from Adobe, and they weren't cheap. At the time, this would have pretty much cut the low-end printer market to the ground. The high-end printer market, of course, pretty much all did PostScript if you asked them to.