[X Newbies] Laser Printer Deal That I Found

[Alex]

On Monday, Jun 21, 2004, at 23:56 Canada/Eastern, Vincent Cayenne wrote:

> Are there currently *any* consumer printers that license the "genuine" 
> article? Is it relevant any more?

The operative word is "consumer". At the higher end, there's most 
definitely an issue -- go to any DTP list and you're likely to hear 
about plenty of problems caused by CloneScripts. At the lower end, 
you're probably right, it's not really relevant. I set up a client with 
a Samsung ML-1210 (probably the cheapest, lowest-end laser printer 
around, which uses the GDI printing language -- probably the cheapest, 
lowest-end language around), added ESP Ghostscript and a foomatic 
filter -- both free -- and it prints PostScript like a charm. In fact, 
it prints faster when emulating PostScript then when using its native 
Samsung GDI driver!

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