On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 08:21:48PM -0500, Reginald Neale wrote:
> Sean asked:
>
> >
> >I would appreciate it,too, if anyone has any general "caveats" about LED
> >based printers, that they would let me know,please.
> >
>   IMHO the main difference is that because they are less expensive, they
>   are likely not to support postscript. Not having postscript in a laser
>   printer is a pain.

I agree that this is a pain. My Okidata does support
HP LJ IIp, which most PC software can handle, and it
does a pretty decent job with it. For PostScript support,
I drive it with GhostScript, but I don't have much
memory in mine (I've been too cheap to upgrade it) and
a graphics-intensive PostScript document will overflow
on me. I could fix that with some extra memory, though,
and for pages that do fit in memory, GhostScript
usually does an excellent job, although the occaisional
non-standard postscript will hang it up.

Okidata does make PostScript LED printers, but the
the Adobe license as well as extra processing capacity
and memory requred does drive up the price.

--Bob

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