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1994.12.20 14:00 "Re: TIFF Printing and Storage Optimization", by Fredrik Lundh
Sam Leffler writes: > I'm probably out of touch, but I do not believe that PSL2 is commonly > available on printers. Most new PS printers I have seen the last two years use Adobe PSL2, and some have really good CPU performance as well. But this may of course vary between vendors, markets, price tags... > As an example, SGI sells a printer+software that's hooked to the > host via SCSI and the RIP is done on the host. In this case there's > not a whole lot of reason to optimize the submitted PS 'cuz it's all > done on the host. Agree. A lot of (PC-hosted) printer accelerators are designed in similar ways; as most laser printers include some kind of auxiliary I/O or "video interface" one can use the host CPU together with some dedicated hardware to do tricks the plain printer cannot. If PSL2/CCITT isn't appropriate, I'd consider calling Xionics. /F