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Maybe this is even going thru the windows printer driver

so might fix your problems as well.

it's a confusing subject, because there are 20 different ways to 
print :-)

well, if the way you're doing it now is not working ... I suggest 
you try my ways :)

the problem is that the new printer is not a postscript printer.

Huh??

the HP 1200 ?

sorry if I confused you. no the HP1200 one is no longer being used

I ranted about it, because I could not print directly to it, but 
had to use the adobe driver for that.

well, then there is very little option except to use ghostscript

now with a new printer, I have to create a completely different setup 
with ghostscript.

the only problem is the speed. I really wish I could speed it up.

faster PC

what printer do you have now?

HP Laserjet 1505.

well, the bitmap it sends is over 2 MB in size. that's pretty huge 
for a pure b/w bitmap I think.

who's decision was it to purchase that?

mine and budget. we can't afford a better printer.

you need to create a PCL driver :)

it seems gsprint provides many more options... I will have to investigate 
that.

yeah :-(

cheap host based printer

now if they stopped that winprinter crap and had postscript as standard 
in all printers... the hardware to do that should be fairly cheap 
for that today.

so it will always be slower than a PS printe.

yes, I don't expect it to be as fast as PS, but this is like... 25-50 
times slower. :-)

do you need to print as soon as possible?

You do know that ghostscript can convert ps to pcl ??

and then you can dump the resulting prn file to the printer vs creating 
a bitmap??

Since the printer driver is host based, it would be doing the same 
thing as well.

I did not know that.

if it can that makes my task simpler.

the product description says that the HHP 1505 is a host based PCL 
printer

yes it is. I think all HP printers are.

no

well, as long as this one is.. :-)

try sending some raw PCL to the printer to see what happens

If it doesn't understand it .. then it's just a dumb printer

with a PCL driver

hmm... need some examples for that.

and a new PC. that stupid machine just died. glorious day today.

setup a HP printer ( eg an old laserjet ) and set the driver to print 
to a file

take the printer output and send it directly to the printer if you 
can .. see what happens

My guess is that it doesn't have any PCL engine on boad.

it might not

the HP driver probably takes PCL and creates a bitmap and then sends 
it to the printer

as opposed to sending PCL to the printer... well, that is my guess

if anything, perhaps that process is faster

ghostscript can generate pcl from postscript ... and then you can 
feed it to the driver

There are many printer specific bugs that require a windows printer 
driver to make postscript printing work properly


Bad news for me! I'm working on a new version of a huge application 
for a customer, and I was about to rebuild their printing in a couple 
of months. I planned to use the rebol postscript dialect.

Geomol, I built a printer abstraction system called system-print 
for my apps. It's not finished, but for what it does it works sort 
of OK. You can choose printing method via a GUI and it auto-detects 
Ghostscript and uses it if necessary.