[Coco] Printing on a Coco with modern printers.

[Tim Fadden]

On 1/10/2014 5:30 AM, Steven Hirsch wrote:
> 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.
>
>
I have to agree with you here.  I have a Brother printer that does 
postscript internally to the printer hooked to a Solaris Sun box that 
spits out postscript, not massaged postscript.

Tim