[X4U] Re: Looking For A Good Black-and-white Laser Printer

[Randy B.Singer]

photo at studiosaid.com said:

>So pardon my ignorance, but I always thought *emulation* meant
>second-fiddle to the real thing, rhinestone as opposed to diamonds.
>Can't we get actual Postscript any more? What does emulation really mean
>in the world of printing Illustrator and Photoshop documents?


In this case it isn't so much emulation as it is a "clone."  There is no 
performance penalty.  

When Postscript clones first came out, they weren't very good, producing 
some printing anomolies.  But that was over a decade ago.  Postscript 
clones are fine now, and apparently they help to keep the price of a 
laser printer down substantially over licensing real Adobe Postscript.

I haven't heard a complaint about a Postscript clone in ages.

As far as I know, only Xerox and GCC laser printers still have real Adobe 
Postscript in their consumer-class laser printers.



Randy B. Singer
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