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From: ghot@ms.uky.edu (Allan Adler)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Is ps --> printer good enough ?
Message-ID: <1991Jun29.081250.20343@ms.uky.edu>
Date: 29 Jun 91 08:12:50 GMT
Sender: ghot@ms.uky.edu (Allan Adler)
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
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Laser printers with resident PostScript are expensive. A cheaper version
is the one sold by Printer Shop for $995, but strictly speaking it is
a Canon LBP-CX printer with a QMS JetScript Controller. In other words,
it seems that it is really a non-PostScript printer to which a PostScript
interpreter has been added. The same vendor also sells JetScript controllers
for other printers.

But if it is ok to take a non-PostScript laser printer and add PostScript
in this way, is it ok instead to add PostScript by having a program on
my PC that converts PostScript to the language that the printer does
understand ? In that case, one could try to find public domain programs
that do this. Is there any reason not to do it this way ?

Is there such a program for the Okidata Laser 400 or for the Toshiba 
PageLaser6 ? These are the cheapest laser printers I know of.

I should mention that my primary application for this is printing out
documents typeset with TeX.

Allan Adler
ghot@ms.uky.edu