Re: How to print an IFS PDF file on a LAN printer

Hello Maria,

Am 13.08.2021 um 02:10 schrieb Maria Lucia Stoppa <mlstoppa@xxxxxxxxx>:

Also, I just want to add one last thing about my previous message: the first described method (sending pdf to printers which don't support direct printing) works fine as well as the second, the problem in my case was the printer which is too old to support both ps and pdf. With newer ones it works smoothly.

Huh? PostScript support in Laser Printers has been a thing since Apple marketed the first LaserWriter in 1985. One needs to note that for a *very* long time, licensing PostScript from early Adobe seems to have been expensive enough to make printer manufacturers consider PS support optional by adding some kind of module.

As far as my (limited) memory serves, the last decade has seen PS support (either original Adobe, or a clone thereof as Kyocera did with its KPDL) in almost all laser printers except for the very low end ones.

Definitely worth considering is the fact that PostScript is almost always slower being processed in printer than PCL, the HP invented page description "language".

:wq! PoC