Nicola Bernardelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The Lexmark Optra E312 (600x600dpi, 4Mbytes RAM, 10ppm, 3 years > replacement-at-home warranty, relatively cheap toner cartridge [5000 > pages] with builtin photoconductor) claims "Postscript2+pcl6 > emulations". > > Could I just send to it the Postscript files produced with the tools > commonly used in Linux?
My guess is "Yes", but I don't have any experience with Lexmark printers. I can't imagine why there would be any problems, though. > I guess a PCL-only printer would also do, maybe via Ghostscript as a > translator, but what would it miss compared to a Postscript printer? I don't think you'd miss much. Setting up a PCL printer is a bit more work (at least until I discovered the apsfilter package), but you should be able to print anything out on it. It may be slower, because (AFAIK - so don't quote me on this) Ghostscript would print each page as a large bitmap. And complex pages will be processed by your CPU instead of the printer, which may cause a bit of problems on a high-load machine, but you probably don't have to worry about that for normal text/music work. I have a Brother HL-730, and I haven't had any problems with it. It took some digging before I found out the right configuration to make it print at 600dpi, though. A general warning about printers: some claim to have PCL support, but only support PCL through a Windows software driver. Some (like my HL-730) will support PCL4 in hardware, and some higher level of PCL through software, which is annoying because PCL4 only allows up to 300dpi. HTH Hubert
