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From: howeird@hpwrce.HP.COM (Howard Stateman)
Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop
Subject: Re: looking for a Postscript converter program
Message-ID: <7650002@hpwrce.HP.COM>
Date: 12 Apr 89 20:50:29 GMT
References: <1226@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Organization: Ye Olde Salt Mines
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>postscript files on the HP Deskjet, in fact, I have been doing it for
>for several months.  For you DOS users, there are 2 programs that have
>drivers for Deskjet postscript: GOSCRIPT and FREEDOM OF PRESS.  I have
>tested both, and found FOP to be a little better, but it costs 2x as
>much as GS.  Both programs let you use your host processor to run 	
>a postscript interpiter. There is a postscript processor board from
>Everex, called the POST CARD PLUS.  I also have this board intstalled.
>It provides 3 to 5 meg of ram, a 12meg 80186 cpu, and the postscript 
>program.  When installed, it becomes a LPT: port, and works GREAT. I think
>that the board costs around 1.7k now, but it drives SEVERAL printers 
>including the Deskjet.

You haven't really given him much of a solution. For the cost of that 
Everex board, plus the software you mention, he can go out and buy
a postscript printer. That Postcard+ is NOT a trivial item, as your
message implies. It's the equivalent of buying a PostScript upgrade
for a Laserjet.

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