Emulated PostScript (was Re: MacOSX-admin Digest, Vol 39, Issue 26)

[Chad Leigh]

On Apr 1, 2007, at 11:30 PM, Alex Satrapa wrote:

> On 02/04/2007, at 12:45 , Ashley Aitken wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure stalling (slowing down) or choking (running out of  
>> memory?) because the PostScript file is too big or too complicated  
>> is really a problem with the Emulated Postscript?
>
> The hint that I wanted to give to people reading this list was  
> mainly that you shouldn't just buy a printer. Make sure the person  
> selling it to you is committed enough to supporting it that they  
> will let you print some sample documents from your past history.  
> Then when you find a document that chokes your current printer, add  
> it to the list of documents to use when testing the next printer  
> you plan to purchase.

You need to make sure it is the printer's fault, and not a lack of  
memory or something.  Some printers may choke on complicated print  
jobs because the default memory is insufficient, but would have no  
problem with the job if they had more memoy.   I always buy extra  
memory with my printers.  My Konica Minolta color laser was maxed out  
to 640MB and my HP 2100tn (1999 printer) was maxed out to 40MB.   
Never had any job of any complexity choke either one.

Chad

>
> Of course, this printer selection plan fails abysmally when  
> choosing sub-$2k printers since you're dealing with retail staff  
> who are more concerned with moving boxes out the door than  
> understanding a customer's needs. At which point, you go to a  
> mailing list and ask for people's advice about which low-end  
> printer will work best for your needs, and be prepared to accept  
> that you'll find some documents that just won't print on your  
> gleaming new laser printer, leaving you to find out which feature  
> of your document is causing the problem.
>
> Alex
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