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Marc SCHAEFER wrote in ch.comp.os.linux:


>> bitmaps drucke, warte ich ewigkeiten! Wenn ich mit gimp/sane eine
>yes. bitmaps are very inefficient with PostScript. If you draw something
>with xfig, it will be much faster with a PostScript printer than a
>bitmap printer. If you simply print a GIF, and your postscript printer
>is not VERY FAST (interface and processing), it will be slow.[...]
>Typical *texts* (e.g. those produced with LaTeX) will be quite
>small postscript.

Although my system is fairly powerful (PentiumII300, 256MByte RAM,
PCL-LaserJet HP 6L), even printing simple LaTeX-documents is rather
slow.

I suppose this is due to the fact that Ghostscript sends bitmaps to the
printer. Is it possible to have Ghostscript outputs PCL, or am I
missing something?

Matthias