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From: austing@Apple.COM (Glenn L. Austin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: looking for a Postscript converter program
Message-ID: <28837@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 12 Apr 89 17:12:13 GMT
References: <1226@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <980001@hpwrce.HP.COM>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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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.

Sure the Deskjet isn't capable of printing Postscript, just the same as the
vanilla Canon laser printing engine isn't capable of printing Postscript.
What is required is something to read and interpret the Postscript code and
output what the printing device is capable of understanding.  That means
that even old printers could be capable of Postscript, it just would require
CPU time from somewhere, even if it was from your computer.


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