| Dan Sideen 2005-11-10, 7:01 pm |
| I am not sure why you care whether the printer is genuine Adobe or not? Does
it print your PS Level 3 job?
We have several Phasers, and they never seem to choke on any PS files. I
couldn't care less who wrote the code.
BTW, the real irony is that Xerox invented Postscript, but, like so many
things, didn't know what to do with it. So Warnock and company left Xerox,
started Adobe and got rich!
Many, many years later, and with great reluctance, Xerox licensed Postscript
from Adobe for their production printers to replace their proprietarly
Metacode language. Metacode is truly the ugliest, most obtuse and least
functgional page description language ever invented, and I give thanks every
day that is is disappearing!!
"Julian Vrieslander" <julianvREMOVE_THIS_PART@mindspring.com> wrote in
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> In another thread on comp.periphs.printers, I described how I was
> finding it difficult to determine whether a particular monochrome laser
> was equipped with a true PostScript Level 3 interpreter (licensed from
> Adobe, not emulated). The printer is the Xerox Phaser 3500. The Xerox
> web site has documents which are conflicting. There is a product line
> brochure which indicates that the 3500 uses a PS emulator. But other
> documents show "language support" is "PostScript Level 3" or "Adobe®
> PostScript® Level 3". Telephone calls to Xerox were not helpful. I
> spoke to several people, including a technician. One had no clue, while
> two others said that the printer has true Adobe PS. But none of them
> seemed to have a clear understanding of the difference between a printer
> that supports PS commands vs one that has a PS interpreter licensed from
> Adobe.
>
> It's also possible that Xerox (through its literature and its reps)
> might be intentionally obfuscating the issue.
>
> I called Adobe to ask if they have list of printers which use licensed
> PS. I was told that they do not. Well, it's a sure bet that this list
> exists, but it may not be available to the public.
>
> So is there any way to run a test for this? Is it possible to print a
> page with commands that will reveal whether a printer has real or
> emulated PS?
>
> --
> Julian Vrieslander
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