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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!cs.mu.OZ.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Q: HP 5L: Any Problems with FreeBSD? Date: 22 Jun 1996 12:09:18 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4qgnpe$q31@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4pst35$kb@pier2.bayarea.net> <Dt3o6E.H26@alisa.org> <31C96924.6DEC@ihug.co.nz> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.periphs.printers:41427 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:21911 Jimmy <jimmyc@ihug.co.nz> wrote: > May I ask why you'd need to use ghostscript/apsfilter to print when > your printer is a postscript laser ? Is there any advantage in doing > so ? You don't need ghostscript in this case, but apsfilter might still come handy, since it converts any kind of file into some nice-looking PostScript form. You only need ghostscript if your printer doesn't understand PS directly. The benefit of ghostscript is that almost all host CPUs these days seem to be more powerful than the embedded controllers in a printer, so it's quite possible that running ghostscript on an i586/100 may result in a faster turn-around time. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)