Re: Mac Word 2004 Templates yield HUGE filesizes when used by Windows machines?

From: John McGhie (john_at_mcghie.name)
Date: 11/04/04 

Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 22:33:36 +1100

Hi Phillip:

I sit corrected :-) I had an NEC SilentWriter that was like that. It was
nominally a GDI printer, but it included a software emulation of PostScript
that actually worked rather well.

On 4/11/04 9:49 AM, in article en1OwdfwEHA.3416@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl,
"Phillip M. Jones, CE.T." <pjones@kimbanet.com> wrote:

> John McGhie wrote:
 
>> Most cheap- to middle-price printers these days do NOT support PostScript.
>> Of course, all Mac printers do, they have to. But on the Windows side,
>> PostScript is not needed and the printer can be made much more cheaply if it
>> does not have it!
>
> I beg to differe on this point. All Mac printers "do not" print
> Postscript. I use a HP Deskjet 990c inkjet printer and it plainly does
> not print Postscript. On OS 9 it uses QuickDraw. and on OSX it uses the
> Quartz Engine which is a form of PDF format. anyway its licensed from
> Adobe. Mac can use Postscript printers but not "all mac printers are
> Postscript. 

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