Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!midway!chsun1!kusumoto From: kusumoto@chsun1.uchicago.edu (Bob Kusumoto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Postscript? Message-ID: Date: 16 Nov 90 23:03:21 GMT References: <1990Nov16.071937.7911@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.pc Organization: University of Chicago Lines: 30 Postsciript is a trademarked page description language created by Adobe. It's a way to describe how a page looks in ascii text (If you ever examine PS code to a printer, it's just plain text, which is a nice feature over phone lines). Why is it so expensive? I'm not quite sure if its still true but Adobe used to require people to license their PDL (page descrip. lang.) for any printers that contained them or any software package that outputed PS code. Recently the price has been coming down. As to what kind of printer you should get, I would probably say the best bet would be an HP Laserjet II (not a IIP) with at least an extra MB board if not 2 or 4MB board for the printer with Adobe's PS cartridge for the II. You get 300 dpi output with a printer engine that does 8 ppm. Or you can go with a IIP with HP's PS cartridge and 2MB board for it to get the same results except the printer engine is only capable of 4 ppm. If you do go with an HP printer, for a cartridge PS solution, I would stick with Adobe's or HP's PS cartridge, only because its the only one on the market that does true PS. The pacific page cartridge uses a postscript emulation called phoenix page, which is nice in some ways (its capable of switching between PS and PCL modes) but worse in others (its PS output can look slightly screwed up). Bob -- Bob Kusumoto | Find the electric messiah! Internet: kusumoto@chsun1.uchicago.edu | The AC/DC God! Bitnet: kusumoto@chsun1.uchicago.bitnet | - My Life with the Thrill Kill UUCP: ...!{oddjob,gargoyle}!chsun1!kusumoto | Kult, "Kooler than Jesus"