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Re: [SLE] any new color laser printers?
- From: Bruce Marshall <bmarsh@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 11:51:20 -0500
- Message-id: <200601031151.20214.bmarsh@xxxxxxxxxx>
On Tuesday 03 January 2006 11:40, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> You very specifically asked whether the support was "native." It is not.
> It is "emulated," meaning the driver in the host computer interprets
> the PostScript and sends something else (bit-maps, probably) to the
> printer.
>
> It is _not_ a PostScript printer. If you send it PostScript, it will not
> interpret it and render the pages described by that PostScript. If
> anything, it will print it as text or try (and fail, not doubt) to
> interpret it as its native page description language, which is
> presumably HP PCL.
Gotcha now.... It is not apparent from the writeups exactly how the PS is
done.....
> You very specifically asked whether the support was "native." It is not.
> It is "emulated," meaning the driver in the host computer interprets
> the PostScript and sends something else (bit-maps, probably) to the
> printer.
>
> It is _not_ a PostScript printer. If you send it PostScript, it will not
> interpret it and render the pages described by that PostScript. If
> anything, it will print it as text or try (and fail, not doubt) to
> interpret it as its native page description language, which is
> presumably HP PCL.
Gotcha now.... It is not apparent from the writeups exactly how the PS is
done.....
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