On Sat 28 Jul 2012 at 15:45:44 +0000, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 16:17:22 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > Anyway: a PostScript printer has a PostScript interpreter; a PCL printer > > has a PCL interpreter; a PDF printer has a PDF interpreter. They accept > > print jobs sent directly to them in the supported language. > > And that's the key. No transformations are needed, no necessity for > interpreting the input, it's direct. When the printer lacks from PCL6 or > PS or PDF interpreter you're missing that capability.
Are you really sending everything as Postscript directly to the printer? Nothing goes through CUPS? Could it be we have different ideas of 'directly'? > Does your printer integrate a PDF interprerter? The ones I managed do > not, just PCL6 and PostScript. No, it does not. Does it need to? This subthread began with the statement that > . . . . a PS printer is also a PDF printer. so, if we are to accept that, having one isn't important. Incidentally, nobody sends PCL6 directly to a printer, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120729112922.GK6660@desktop
