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- From: bt@irfu.se (Bo Thide')
- Subject: Re: PCL to PostScript translator
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.122602.11472@irfu.se>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 12:26:02 GMT
- References: <86239@ut-emx.uucp> <FURNISH.93Jan7002216@dino.ph.utexas.edu>
- Organization: Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden
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- In article <FURNISH.93Jan7002216@dino.ph.utexas.edu> furnish@dino.ph.utexas.edu (Geoffrey Furnish) writes:
- >In article <86239@ut-emx.uucp> xdaa374@ut-emx.uucp (William T. Douglass) writes:
- >
- > According to the Response Center, LaserROM will only send output in
- > PCL format (LaserJet et. al.) This means we cannot print formatted
- > output from the LaserROM to our printers. We do not have a
- > LaserJet available, and the LaserWriters are dedicated to
- > PostScript and thus cannot be set to PCL mode.
- >
- > We are looking for a filter that will convert PCL formating to
- > postscript, or even to "dumb" printer formatting (overstrike and
- > backspace). If anyone knows of a solution, I would be most
- > grateful to hear from you.
- >
- > Thx.
- > --
- > Bill Douglass, TCADA
- >
- >I have another solution. How about we all rant and rave and scream at
- >HP for making this ABSOLUTELY IDIOTIC functionality in the first
- >place. grrrrrrrrr I can't even begin to tell how sick I am of this
- >same problem.
- >
- >At my site, we do have a printer which can do PCL, but it is not
- >possible to configure lp to automatically kick it into PCL mode (don't
- >ask--you don't really want to know...). If I could only get LaseROM
- >or LROM to write the PCL formatted stuff to a _file_ instead of only
- >to a printer, I could do what I need.
- >
- >How this obviously desirable functionality came to be omitted, one can
- >only guess.
- >
- >Geoff Furnish
- >furnish@dino.ph.utexas.edu
- >
-
- About 75% of the installed base of 9 million laser printers in the
- world speak PCL. Less than 25% speak PostScript.
-
- Bo
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