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From: ifarqhar@mqccsunc.mqcc.mq.oz.au (Ian Farquhar)
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Subject: Re: Printing on a Laserprinter
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Date: 3 Aug 90 10:26:07 GMT
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In article <3779@tmiuv0.uucp> rick@tmiuv0.uucp writes:
>
>He said LaserWriter II, not LaserJet.  LaserWriters use Postscript.  Your
>methodology would work fine for a LaserJet, but the data fild would have to
>be processed with PrintScript or whatever to make it PostScript code that
>the LaserWriter II groks.

Almost all implementations of Postscript in printers feature other
emulations, usually written largely in Postscript themselves.
I have just consulted my Adobe pamphlet on Postscript devices, and it
tells me that the LaserWriter II NTX supports HPLJ+ and Diablo 630 
emulations, whilst the LaserWriter II only has Diablo.

In my experience, these emulations can handle bitmaps and simple text
quite well (albeit slowly), but die if anything more complex is issued.
Anyway, I've always thought that running HPGL in a Postscript printer
is a vaguely insulting thing to do to such a nice PDL :).

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