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From: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: looking for a Postscript converter program
Message-ID: <1750@skinner.nprdc.arpa>
Date: 12 Apr 89 13:39:06 GMT
References: <1226@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <980001@hpwrce.HP.COM>
Reply-To: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Organization: Navy Personnel R&D Center, San Diego
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In article <980001@hpwrce.HP.COM> howeird@hpwrce.HP.COM (Howard Stateman) writes:
>>Does anyone have a program, or can point me to a source, whereby
>>I can print out Postscript page files on the HP Deskjet printer?
>
>I'm afraid you're out of luck. The Deskjet is not capable of printing
>Postscript, and there is no upgrade to make it do so. There also are
>no conversion utilities which can take a postscript page and convert
>it to anything the Deskjet can read.

It always restores my faith in the free-market system when the
manufacturer of a product says "There is no way you can do _X_ with
this product" when other companies, unaware that the product can't do
_X_, go ahead and come up with a way to do _X_ with the product.

>There are two possible solutions to your problem. One is to find]
>out from your software vendor if this software can output HP PCL
>language for the Deskjet. The other is to buy a Postscript printer.
>I'd recommend the former, as the latter costs about $5300.

There were reviews in an issue of _PC Magazine_ a couple of months
back on several of the PostScript interpreters that outlined the
price/performance tradeoffs for each of them; I recommend that you
look for the issue and read the reviews, which were in the 'First
Looks' section of the magazine.


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