Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!arisia!cdp!sklein
From: sklein@cdp.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Program to print postscript on Lase
Message-ID: <134400001@cdp>
Date: 15 Apr 89 18:55:00 GMT
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Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!sklein    Apr 15 10:55:00 1989


If there was a program to print PostScript files on the HP LaserJet II,
people wouldn't be spending $3,000 (and up) for PostScript compatible
printers.  It isn't impossible, it just hasn't been done yet.

But this makes me think... Why couldn't the postscript interpreter that
runs on 68000-based printers (a la Apple's Laserwriter series) be ported
to a 68000-based computer (Macintosh)?  It would be slow, but someone with
a Mac Plus could do PostScript imaging in the machine, the bit-blast the
image out to a dumb printer.

Since no one is doing this, I must be missing something.  What? 
-shabtai klein

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