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  Shopping recommendations for a Postscript Printer? luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2011-11-30 14:10 -0800
    Re: Shopping recommendations for a Postscript Printer? tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2011-11-30 20:53 -0500
      Re: Shopping recommendations for a Postscript Printer? luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2011-11-30 18:08 -0800
    Re: Shopping recommendations for a Postscript Printer? Bob Tennent <BobT@cs.queensu.ca> - 2011-12-01 03:16 +0000
    Re: Shopping recommendations for a Postscript Printer? A D <amd1234@fastmail.com.au> - 2011-12-01 23:48 +1100
      Re: Shopping recommendations for a Postscript Printer? jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2015-12-31 08:05 -0800
        Re: Shopping recommendations for a Postscript Printer? luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-01 11:23 -0800
          Re: Shopping recommendations for a Postscript Printer? Peter Billam <peter@www.pjb.com.au> - 2016-01-12 05:06 +0000

#466 — Shopping recommendations for a Postscript Printer?

At the risk of shocking you-all to tears of laughter, I must confess
I don't own a printer. At school, there were printers everywhere
so it wasn't really a problem. And then when my life collapsed
(really bad break-up) I fled computers entirely for about five years.
Since then, previewing with ghostscript has been sufficient for
most of my needs (Thank God for Ghostscipt [and L.P.Deutsch
and Ken and everybody else] !)

Now I want one.  "ps2pdf, mount /dev/usb1, cp, umount,
hoof-it-to-OfficeMax" is getting a little tiresome as a printing
procedure.

So is there a reasonably-priced Postscript printer for the
anti-social, super-genius, not-very-humble, postscript hacker?

I'm tempted to get a classic, like an old Laserwriter, or an
HP-4si (fond memories from school). But all the new stuff
seems to be PCL-only in the low-budget range. I browsed
through OfficeMax today and couldn't find Postscript
anywhere! Searching Amazon is a mess. EBay is scary.

Friends? Help?!

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#467

On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:10:24 -0800 (PST), luser- -droog wrote:

> At the risk of shocking you-all to tears of laughter, I must confess
> I don't own a printer. At school, there were printers everywhere
> so it wasn't really a problem. And then when my life collapsed
> (really bad break-up) I fled computers entirely for about five years.
> Since then, previewing with ghostscript has been sufficient for
> most of my needs (Thank God for Ghostscipt [and L.P.Deutsch
> and Ken and everybody else] !)
> 
> Now I want one.  "ps2pdf, mount /dev/usb1, cp, umount,
> hoof-it-to-OfficeMax" is getting a little tiresome as a printing
> procedure.
> 
> So is there a reasonably-priced Postscript printer for the
> anti-social, super-genius, not-very-humble, postscript hacker?
> 
> I'm tempted to get a classic, like an old Laserwriter, or an
> HP-4si (fond memories from school). But all the new stuff
> seems to be PCL-only in the low-budget range. I browsed
> through OfficeMax today and couldn't find Postscript
> anywhere! Searching Amazon is a mess. EBay is scary.
> 
> Friends? Help?!

Any printer that comes with a driver for your OS will print for you,
even if it's again a matter of printing through AcroRead after a ps2pdf.

I think of a PCL printer's driver as a ps2pcl routine, an Epson printer's
driver as a ps2Epson routine, etc -- so just get *any* cheap printer,
a Brother, for example, and let 'er rip :-) . Or, investigate which of 
today's cheaper HP printers include ps emulation in their firmware, and
get one of those. [Not "today's", and not "cheap", but the old 4500 CLJ
did that; "today's", but still not exactly "cheap", so does the CP2025). 
Or put your ps on the thumbdrive directly, and hoof it to your friendly 
neighborhood campus, for running off in a printer lab.

HTH. And cheers, -- tlvp
-- 
Avant de repondre, jeter la poubelle, SVP.

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#468

On Nov 30, 7:53 pm, tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlL...@att.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:10:24 -0800 (PST), luser- -droog wrote:

> > So is there a reasonably-priced Postscript printer for the
> > anti-social, super-genius, not-very-humble, postscript hacker?
>
> > I'm tempted to get a classic, like an old Laserwriter, or an
> > HP-4si (fond memories from school). But all the new stuff
> > seems to be PCL-only in the low-budget range. I browsed
> > through OfficeMax today and couldn't find Postscript
> > anywhere! Searching Amazon is a mess. EBay is scary.
>
> > Friends? Help?!
>
> Any printer that comes with a driver for your OS will print for you,
> even if it's again a matter of printing through AcroRead after a ps2pdf.
>
> I think of a PCL printer's driver as a ps2pcl routine, an Epson printer's
> driver as a ps2Epson routine, etc -- so just get *any* cheap printer,
> a Brother, for example, and let 'er rip :-) . Or, investigate which of
> today's cheaper HP printers include ps emulation in their firmware, and
> get one of those. [Not "today's", and not "cheap", but the old 4500 CLJ
> did that; "today's", but still not exactly "cheap", so does the CP2025).
> Or put your ps on the thumbdrive directly, and hoof it to your friendly
> neighborhood campus, for running off in a printer lab.

I may end up going with PCL; but I have pipe dreams up hacking-up
something
like LaserTalk, if I can ever find docs for it. That wouldn't be
possible
without bona fide postscript.

Besides it's just awesome to have a programmable periferal:
Sutherland's
rule run amok: the Laserwriter had more power than the Mac Plus!

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#471

On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:10:24 -0800 (PST), luser- -droog wrote:

 > So is there a reasonably-priced Postscript printer for the
 > anti-social, super-genius, not-very-humble, postscript hacker?

http://www.openprinting.org/driver/Postscript/

lists 971 Postscript printers.  I'm sure some of them are
reasonably-priced. Have you decided whether you want color, duplex
printing, wireless access, ... ?  

Bob T.

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#472

On 01/12/11 09:10, luser- -droog wrote:
...
> So is there a reasonably-priced Postscript printer for the
> anti-social, super-genius, not-very-humble, postscript hacker?
...

Well, if you don't mind the odd quirk (ie breaks at times on acroreader, 
but works on xpdf) you could look at the Brother HL-5350DN etc BRscript 
range.  $300-400, duplexer and networking included.

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#2408

And? What PostScript printer did you buy? And has it lasted for five years?

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#2410

On Thursday, December 31, 2015 at 10:05:42 AM UTC-6, jdaw1 wrote:
> And? What PostScript printer did you buy? And has it lasted for five years?

Actually, I finally bought one a few weeks ago. Haven't
unboxed it yet. It contains a clone but I'm not sure which one it is.

HP LaserJet Pro M402dn 
~$500 USD

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#2421

On 2016-01-01, luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, December 31, 2015 at 10:05:42 AM UTC-6, jdaw1 wrote:
>> And? What PostScript printer did you buy? And has it lasted for five years?
> Actually, I finally bought one a few weeks ago. Haven't
> unboxed it yet. It contains a clone but I'm not sure which one it is.
> HP LaserJet Pro M402dn  ~$500 USD

Mine is a HP LaserJet 4MP, still working perfectly, nearly 20 years now
and I can still get the cartridges.

Slow, of course...
I had a nice little mandelbrot-set which took 24 hours to print :-)

Regards,  Peter

-- 

Peter Billam    www.pjb.com.au    www.pjb.com.au/comp/contact.html

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