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- Sam Leffler writes:
- > I'm probably out of touch, but I do not believe that PSL2 is commonly
- > available on printers.
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- 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...
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- > 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.
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- 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.
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- If PSL2/CCITT isn't appropriate, I'd consider calling Xionics.
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- /F
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