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In article <eli$1801191241@qz.little-neck.ny.us>, *@eli.users.panix.com 
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> In comp.lang.postscript, ken  <ken@spamcop.net> wrote:
> > ken@spamcop.net says...
> >> Well, I already mentioned that I'm not a fan of Brother devices....
> 
> I'll grant you they are not perfect. I'm curious what you would
> recommend. I will not accept ink jet. I need duplexing, I need wireless
> (these days), I need Mac (most printing) and Iphone/Win/Linux support.

My input is only useful in terms of the quality of the PostScript 
interpreter, I don't have any recent wide experience of printer 
hardware.

Any printer using an Adobe implementation will of course be fine. Clone 
Rips from Ricoh and Canon have been good in my experience. Lexmark have 
historically been decent, though I don't know what they use these days.

My exposure is via Ghostscript. Ghostscript has a device for turning its 
input (PCL, XPX, PDF, PostScript) into PostScript output. The PostScript 
produced is machine generated and therefore predictable. Its also 
conforms to the language, and to the architectural limitations of an 
Adobe implementation.

We have, over the years, had to allow options to scale back the feature 
set because the (perfectly valid) PostScript won't run on various 
printers. Brother printers are the most frequent culprits in this 
regard.


> If not Brother, which has been reliable if not perfect, what do you
> suggest for this?

As I said, I've been away from the hardware end of this for some time 
now, I can only comment on the implementation of the PostScript 
interpreter. Of the (few) remaining PostScript interpreters on the 
market the Brother clone is by far the worst implementation I've seen.

Which doesn't mean that it doesn't work well most of the time, or that 
there's anything wrong with the hardware, or that it doesn't do a good 
job for you generally.

But when you want to do something a bit out of the ordinary, its quirks 
start to surface.


				Ken

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on paper tray selection Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2018-01-18 00:39 +0000
  Re: on paper tray selection ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2018-01-18 12:06 +0000
    Re: on paper tray selection ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2018-01-18 14:06 +0000
    Re: on paper tray selection Martin Leese <please@see.Web.for.e-mail.INVALID> - 2018-01-18 10:57 -0700
      Re: on paper tray selection Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2018-01-18 19:24 +0000
        Re: on paper tray selection ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2018-01-19 09:07 +0000
          Re: on paper tray selection ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2018-01-19 15:46 +0000
            Re: on paper tray selection Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2018-01-19 18:26 +0000
              Re: on paper tray selection ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2018-01-20 09:15 +0000
            Re: on paper tray selection Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2018-01-19 19:24 +0000
              Re: on paper tray selection ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2018-01-20 09:32 +0000
          Re: on paper tray selection Martin Leese <please@see.Web.for.e-mail.INVALID> - 2018-01-19 10:55 -0700
            Re: on paper tray selection Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2018-01-19 18:33 +0000
              Re: on paper tray selection ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2018-01-20 09:18 +0000
  Re: on paper tray selection jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2018-01-21 04:44 -0800
    Re: on paper tray selection Martin Leese <please@see.Web.for.e-mail.INVALID> - 2018-01-23 10:17 -0700
      Re: on paper tray selection Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2018-01-26 17:55 +0000

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