[geeks] Printers, postscript, networking...

[Lionel Peterson]

I have a LaserJet 2600n (low-cost laserjet w/network print server pre-installed, priced at $275-300). It includes Postscript, but as I understand it, it relies on a "host" PC for the Postscript emulation - that's an impression, not a fact (I've jsut got the printer, and it is used by a PC, so never really cared).

I have other HPs with actual hardware postscript (HP LJ4M+, HP LJ4MV, HP LJ2100TN).

Lionel

>From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
>Date: Sat Apr 22 21:37:54 CDT 2006
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Printers, postscript, networking...

>Sat, 22 Apr 2006 @ 02:23 -0400, Dave Fischer said:
>
>> >If anything, it should improve over time.
>> 
>> Unless they decided to save money by not liscencing Adobe's PS firmware
>> and screwed up something with the alternative...
>
>You mean HP used to have true PostScript? That would explain a degradation in
>quality and speed.
>
>Of course, I read today that HP PostScript is an emulation that sits on top of
>PCL, so no licensing should be involved.
>
>Maybe they used to have real PostScript and changed to emulation. Might not be
>HP's fault, because Adobe is notoriously hard to deal with.
>
>Also, I can see why the emulation would not be as good, but it still should
>slowly improve, just like GhostScript has.
>
>Then again, HP has not been itself in recent years.
>
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