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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

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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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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