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mcguire at neurotica.com writes:

>> Where is it interpreting it twice?  The NeXT laser printer was just a 
>> dumb engine that got the image info from the CPU; kinda like how the
>> SPARCprinter works.  It *was* only getting rendered once, unless I'm
>> mistaken.

>  That was my point..."why interpret the postscript twice" was what
>the NeXT developers said.  Sorry if I was unclear.

It does have to be rendered twice though, since the output device
characteristics are different (dpi, bpp).

However - the fact that all the postscript software was there, running,
makes a huge difference. Using that instead of putting a bunch of
resources that would be idle most of the time in the printer was a
good idea.

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