Re: [icon-users] draw-TW-pdf / case for Postscript 3
- From: Brian Carroll <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: icon-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 17:59:11 +0000 (GMT)
In article <909e09bb56.jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jim Nagel
<jimtw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jim asked:
Tangential question: What physical printing machine(s) do
you have? I'm wondering if any of them are driven by
Postscript (they might well use some other driver such as
PCL or a machine-specific one).
Bob Ardler wrote on 15 Jan:
HP Color LaserJet CP1515n.
Ah. When you said earlier that you don't have !PS3 in your
$.Printing directory, that made me wonder whether you have a
Postscript printer. And you do. (The online spec sheet for
the HP 1515 says it does PCL or Postscript 3.)
I'd suggest that you'd find it worthwhile to buy the !PS3
driver for RiscOS, which Martin Wuerthner and John Tytgat
reprogrammed from scratch not many years ago as a replacement
for the ancient and buggy old Postscript 2 driver that dates
back to Acorn in 1991 (it had only minor updates and
32-bitting after that).
I enthusiastically agree with that.
[ ... ]
I use the same printer as Bob; from a PC and from various RISC OS
machines.
My !Printers has 3 'Active' printers on the iconbar: PS3 to PDF
(file) using Steve Fryatt's excellent !PrintPDF, PS3 direct to
the printer (which is a Postscript printer), and Uniprint* which
goes to the same printer via the PC.
There are some other printers set to 'Inactive' until needed such
as PS2 to PDF, SpritePrinter, Arcfax.
I also use UniLaunch* to pass a PDF file to Adobe Reader on the PC
to take advantage of the many options in its printer driver.
With all this set ready to use I am spoilt for choice :-)
Brian.
* (not working at present)
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