From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 3 2:10:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mcqueen.wolfsburg.de (pns.wobline.de [212.68.68.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F3ED37B42B for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 02:10:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from colt.ncptiddische.net (ppp-238.wobline.de [212.68.69.249]) by mcqueen.wolfsburg.de (8.11.3/8.11.3/tw-20010821) with ESMTP id g03AAgI14681; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 11:10:42 +0100 Received: from tisys.org (jodie.ncptiddische.net [192.168.0.2]) by colt.ncptiddische.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g03ABBX10982; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 11:11:12 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nils@tisys.org) Received: (from nils@localhost) by tisys.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g03AAkL01756; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 11:10:46 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nils) Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 11:10:11 +0100 From: Nils Holland To: Sam Drinkard Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printing Question Message-ID: <20020103111011.A1591@tisys.org> Mail-Followup-To: Sam Drinkard , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3C339CDA.C74F940A@vortex.wa4phy.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3C339CDA.C74F940A@vortex.wa4phy.net>; from sam@wa4phy.net on Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 06:50:50PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD jodie.ncptiddische.net 4.5-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.5-PRERELEASE X-Machine-Uptime: 10:51AM up 16 mins, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.04, 0.01 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 06:50:50PM -0500, Sam Drinkard stood up and spoke: > Having been indoctrinated to Unix some good many years ago with SysV > (Interactive 2.01), I have over the years wondered *WHY*, if in a modern > environment the print language of Unix has not changed from postscript > to PCL, or other language common to today's printers. Granted, the > print converters and postscript interpreters are pretty good, it would > appear to me that maybe with all the gui changes that have occured to > both *BSD and Linux, there should be native support for these > printers.. (Ever try to find an inexpensive PS printer nowdays?) Just > a wild thought.. anybody care to share your thoughts? Well, what's the problem with the way it is? Using apsfilter and ghostscript, I don't see a difference when using my HP Deskjet 930C (PCL printer) vs. a "real" Postscript printer. I simply do something like "cat | lpr -Plp" and it gets printed on my Deskjet. In X I simply click the "Print" button in whatever application I'm using. I guess that if I had a genunie Postscript printer, I'd do actually the very same. So, besides the need to set up apsfilter / ghostscript properly for my printer once, I don't see much disadvantages / problems with having a non-ps printer, and therefore I also don't see a problem that the native printing language on UNIX Systems is PS. Greetings Nils -- Nils Holland Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message