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[Excerpted from the dvips manual...]
The dvips driver generates excellent, standard PostScript, that
can be included in other documents as figures or printed through a
variety of spoolers. The generated PostScript requires very little
printer memory, so very complex documents with a lot of fonts can easily
be printed even on PostScript printers without much memory, such as the
original Apple LaserWriter. The PostScript output is also compact,
requiring less disk space to store and making it feasible as a transfer
format.
Even those documents that are too complex to print in their entirety on
a particular printer can be printed, since dvips will automatically
split such documents into pieces, reclaiming the printer memory between
each piece.
The dvips program supports graphics in a natural way, allowing
PostScript graphics to be included and automatically scaled and
positioned in a variety of ways.
Printers with resolutions other than 300 dpi are also supported, even if
they have a different resolution in the horizontal and vertical
directions. High resolution output is supported for typesetters,
including an option that compresses the bitmapped fonts so that
typesetter virtual memory is not exhausted. This option also
significantly reduces the size of the PostScript file and decoding in
the printer is very fast.
Missing fonts can be automatically generated if MetaFont exists on the
system, or fonts can be converted from GF to PK format on demand. If a
font cannot be generated, a scaled version of the same font at a
different size can be used instead, although dvips will complain loudly
about the poor aesthetics of the resulting output.
Users will appreciate features such as collated copies and support for
tpic, psfig, emtex, and METAPOST; system administrators will love the
support for multiple printers, each with their own configuration file,
and the ability to pipe the output directly to a program such as lpr.
Support for MS-DOS and VMS in addition to UNIX is provided in the
standard distribution, and porting to other systems is easy.
One of the most important features is the support of virtual fonts,
which add an entirely new level of flexibility to TeX. Virtual fonts
are used to give dvips its excellent PostScript font support, handling
all the font remapping in a natural, portable, elegant, and extensible
way. Dvips even comes with its own afm2tfm program that creates the
necessary virtual fonts and TeX font metric files automatically from the
Adobe font metric files.
Source is provided and freely distributable, so adding a site-specific
feature is possible. Adding such features is made easier by the highly
modular structure of the program.
There is really no reason to use another driver, and the more people use
dvips, the less time will be spent fighting with PostScript and the more
time will be available to create beautiful documents. So if you don't
use dvips on your system, get it today.