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

[Fernando Cassia]

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Konstantin Svist <fry.kun at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

Adobe Reader->CUPS->GhostScript (rasterizes postscript)->your
printer´s PDL->printer.

Back in the days of 16-bit Windows, nothing choosing beat "print to
encapsulated postscript" (.ps file) and then piping the file to
"lpt1:" (the parallel port).

:-)

FC