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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Cups and Ghostscript . . .
  • Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 08:57:34 +0200

On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 12:52:13PM -0700, Seth Alan Woolley wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 10:41:58AM +0200, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> <snip>
> > a note in the cups spell that you need espgs to print to postscript
> > (pcl?) printers.
> <snip>
>
> PostScript is an apple/adobe collaboration standard that hp (and every
> other company) later adopted for its high end printers. It's a full on
> programming language.
>
> PCL is HP's printer control language, it's mostly escape character
> sequences last I had to use it. It's been supported by other vendors
> who wanted to be able to print from systems designed for HP's earlier
> laserjets.
>
> Both are "open" to the extent anybody can reimplement them.
>
> Just wanted to answer the ? mark, and note that they are not the same
> thing.

I knew that, I was wondering whether espgs is needed by cups to print to
pcl printers too, since that's what I have :)

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