That, in fact, is the case here. I have two laser printers and three
ink-spitters, and a pen plotter, none of which speak PS. They even require
different dialects of PCL. There's even an impact printer from the
DOT-Matrix (for multi-part forms) which doesn't speak either.
The only language common to all my printers is ASCII. All but the TOSHIBA
Dot-Matrix printer speak HPGL if they're prodded.
How can the needs of the many be met without disabling resolution of the
needs of the few, and vice-versa? Who will do the work? From which of
several source formats?
Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Monday, June 07, 1999 6:08 PM
Subject: Re: Disk Drive Documents
>On Jun 7, 18:30, Max Eskin wrote:
>> I recommend PostScript at least as an option, since it's inside every
>> laser printer and many inkjets.
>
>obNitPick: My laserprinter doesn't have PostScript, only PCL. Lots of
>lasers don't, and not many inkjets, at least in my experience. I drive my
>laserjet from a PostScript raster engine (not Ghostscript) running on one
>of my unix machines.
>
>
>--
>
>Pete Peter Turnbull
> Dept. of Computer Science
> University of York
Received on Mon Jun 07 1999 - 20:18:06 BST