Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 09:00:14 -0700 From: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: James FitzGibbon <james@nexis.net>, questions@freebsd.org, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Poscript on an Brother HL760 ? Message-ID: <3328248E.5F52@fsl.noaa.gov> References: <199703130613.QAA02843@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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> Most 'postscript' printers are slow and stupid. Ghostscript OTOH gets to > run on your CPU (how many Pentium-powered printers?) and you can update > it as postscript conventions change. All true. Ghostscript, however, does not have a decent set of fonts. And I still use my Panasonic KXP-4455 (powered by a Motorola 68000 running at less than 7MHz or so, quite possibly the slowest PostScript printer in existence) to process PostScript output because it makes a Times Roman headline font look 100 times better than the public-domain Times Roman accompanying Ghostscript. -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/
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