Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 13:42:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Duplex printer advice Message-ID: <20080603134043.H7375@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCOELFCFAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCOELFCFAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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> > You won't on an HP printer, at least not an older one. Remember > that HP had to pay a very hefty fee to Adobe for licensing > PostScript for each printer. HP did everything possible to push > PCL and discourage customers from selecting PS because they > did not want to continue to have to pay Adobe. HP did not well that make sense. anyway - idon't think that implementing postscript processing (or any other language) in printers make sense at all. computers are powerfull, printer could just take a bitmap and print it (and be cheaper). unfortunately such implementations are usually winprinters ...
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