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From: Wally.Meerschaert@wyrm.rbbs-net.ORG (Wally Meerschaert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Laser Printers with emulation sensing
Message-ID: <643.284D93D9@wyrm.rbbs-net.ORG>
Date: 5 Jun 91 17:18:34 GMT
Organization: The PCUG BBS, San Francisco, CA (415) 621-2609
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 PS> ... What we would like is a printer with
 PS> automatic emulation sensing between HP PCL and Postscript.  By
 PS> automatic emulation sensing I mean that the printer examines
 PS> the information as it arrives and decides whether the
 PS> characters are a postscript image or a PCL image.  I know QMS
 PS> has a least one such print, a real pricy 20 ppm printer, but
 PS> we'd like something a little less fancy, but with the
 PS> performance of something like a LaserWriter NTX. The printer
 PS> also has to have Appletalk. If anyone has any information on
 PS> such printers I'd appreciate hearing from you. Thanks.

Actually, QMS incorporates ESP (their trademark for their sensing
thingy) into their entire line, from the 410 (4ppm) to the 2200 (22ppm)
The 410 is about $2k, and the 8xx's run about $3.5k.  We use several
410's aroung here and have found that it was easier to do the switching
manually, or in some cases to just convert our text to PS before
sending.  EPS isn't a panacea, and it is pretty hard for a pronter to
know when one job ends and another one starts without going in for some
proprietary switching codes.

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