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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

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.

Seth

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