[H-GEN] Postscript Printers

[Paul Gearon]

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On Sun, 27 May 2001, john duncan wrote:

>                    It seems like less gymnastics would be needed for BSD
> style printing if I get a postscript printer.
> Could anyone give a good report on any low-end postscript printer? I am
> only using LaTeX and groff so nothing fancy is needed.

What's wrong with Ghostscript?  I suppose that the config could be a
little tricky, but I was lazy and used printtool, so I wouldn't know (yes,
I know it was written by Redhat, but 'apt-get install printtool' worked
just fine, thank you  :-)

Once you've overcome any admin hurdles with Ghostscript (and I don't
believe there are many) then you can just treat your printer like it's
postscript, and you'll never know the difference.  I use a postscript
printer here at work, and a non-postscript printer with ghostscript at
home, and the only difference I can see at home is it chews up a little
more CPU on the print server (as you'd expect).

In case anyone is concerned about ghostscript compliance to the postscript
standards, then I can't give any definitive answers, however I print
quite a bit at home (including colour photos) and I've yet to find a
problem with it.

Regards,
Paul Gearon

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