There existed "PostScript printers" that rendered PostScript themselves, and "raster printers" that had the host PC handle it for them. The latter being infamou

There existed "PostScript printers" that rendered PostScript themselves, and "raster printers" that had the host PC handle it for them. The latter being infamous as "winprinters", because they relied on Windows infrastructure for it, and often lacked the driver support outside Windows because of it. Nowadays, any device that wants to send a print job has more than enough juice to just render whatever the fuck it wants. Modern connectivity trivializes bitmap transfer. And modern printer standards support things like "this engine wants 1b B/W rasters at 1200 dpi". Dealing with PostScript is very much a choice nowadays.