[Coco] Printing on a Coco with modern printers.

Steven Hirsch snhirsch at gmail.com
Fri Jan 10 07:30:18 EST 2014


On Fri, 10 Jan 2014, Aaron Wolfe wrote:

> You will find that some modern printers that are described as"PCL
> compatible" are actually only PCL capable because their driver renders PCL
> into whatever raw format the printer understands, so be careful when
> purchasing.  Same for Postscript.  For example most HP business printers
> come with drivers for PCL5, PCL6, or Postscript.  The printer itself
> doesn't speak any of those standards, the drivers do.

Unless something has changed very recently, HP laser printers still have 
built-in Postscript interpreters.  At least they did the last time I 
looked.


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