[SunRescue] HP PS printer simm?

[Joshua D. Boyd]

On my postscript/PCL printers, we always run out of printer memory quickly
with postscript limiting page complexity.  PS is also kinda slow.  So, I
bit the bullet and set up Ghostscript anyway.  It was pretty easy.

--
Joshua Boyd

On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Cyrus M. Reed wrote:

> The Postscript SIMM lets you send postscript files direct to the
> printer.  With the SIMM, the printer can handle PCL or Postscript
> formatted jobs, which is very handy with UNIX boxes, since you can just
> send a Postscript file to the printer without using something like
> Ghostscript to convert it to PCL first.  Very cool.  Also somewhat pricey
> to get new from HP, IIRC.
> 
> -Cyrus
> 
> On 2 Apr 2001, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> 
> > Howdy!  I was just going through a bunch of our older LaserJet 4
> > printers, prepping them for sale (I'll probably offer them here), and
> > found a rather strange device in one of the SIMM slots.  The thing has
> > an HP part number of C2080-60001/HP A-2948-56.  Looking up C2080 on the
> > web finds me one thing saying that this is a LaserJet 4/4+ Post Script
> > SIMM.  Does anybody know more about this beast?
> > 
> >     Greg
> > 
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