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From: martin@cube.han.de (Martin Ortlepp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Using DisplayPostscript to render on regular printers
Message-ID: <1991Jun2.114759.935@cube.han.de>
Date: 2 Jun 91 11:47:59 GMT
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At CeBit, I talked to some NeXT representatives who told me that there are  
printer drivers that support non-postscript printers. All I could find so far  
are drivers that only support text on them.
Theoretically, there shouldn't be a problem since DisplayPostscript does all  
the tricky rendering and offers a way to do this device independent using  
arbitrary resolutions (I guess it's the machportdevice I'm talking about). The  
only thing is that I don't know how to transform such a program so that it'll  
act as a printer driver. Ultimately, I would like to print with the regular  
print function rather than calling a special routine from outside. Again, the  
NeXT Laserprinter is the best example that it has to work somehow. But how?