Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: printer purchases Date: 9 Aug 2025 04:36:45 GMT Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <106n49s$5c$1@reader1.panix.com> <106pgsv$207l1$1@dont-email.me> <8af6mlxuk.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <106q3a4$23dsr$4@dont-email.me> <106qbk0$10t1c$1@news1.tnib.de> <106s795$15ddn$1@news1.tnib.de> <10763rd$10n9v$5@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net ksR0dQviKtKSCtIzo2iwyQ5G5oAoAN1iG5P6t8ppKXjVuOIgCH Cancel-Lock: sha1:PyUfbgdSvzxy9b3MpkgP+PFBBnM= sha256:prX40/6G6OzWIbeq3c0zm99jixvslv5wkPOVP1celqo= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:70649 On 9 Aug 2025 03:49:33 GMT, Robert Riches wrote: > At least from what I have been able to determine, it means CUPS > rasterizes the images on the host and then sends the uncompressed > rasterized image to the printer. Prior to "driverless", CUPs (or the > earlier system) would send PS to the printer (if the printer could take > PS or PCL). Our print interface sniffed at the file. If it was PS it checked the printer's capabilities. If it wasn't a PS printer, it shelled out to Ghostscript and then sent the rasterized file to the printer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostscript Long way around the barn but some of the upstream apps used nnscript to add headers, footers, landscape mode and so forth to reports, some only did straight ASCII reports.