[OT] Re: Multifunction laser printers for Fedora 14 ?

[Konstantin Svist]

On 12/06/2010 06:07 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> However, it seems the trend nowadays for low cost desktop laser
> printers is to move away from PCL and PostScript and into new
> propietary page description languages.... probaby to save $10 in
> royalties to HP or Adobe... just when advances in CPU power could give
> us seamless PostScript with immediate printing (I still remember my
> Texas Instruments microlaser with its internal 14mhz Motorola 68000 to
> process postscript jobs... it had you looking at the blinking led and
> "processing postscript" message for two minutes before spitting out
> the printed page....

A bit off-topic:
I still see PDFs take forever to print, while PS docs print right away. 
Re-saving them as .ps and printing that is a lot faster.. Any idea why 
that is still a problem these days?