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Article #944Re: Sending a PDF File Directly to a Postscript Printer
From: Dov Isaacs
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 16:21
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 16:21
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Dennis, Such information is at best misleading. PostScript 3 printers do not necessarily support �direct� PDF printing. And those printers that provide PDF support do so by internally creating PostScript from PDF and then processing the resultant PostScript. Furthermore, printer with that feature typically do not accept jobs via the same communications channels as they do PostScript jobs; there is no standard for this at this time. A further complication that you should consider is that for typical laser printers that have �PDF support,� that support is pretty much frozen at the PDF version that was current at the time the printer model was being developed. Bottom line is that you are much better off printing PDF via PostScript to the printer from the current version of Acrobat Reader, Adobe Reader 6, or Acrobat (the full product). - Dov
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