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I was printing some PS files generated by dvi2ps and realized that it
prints extremely slow.  A little bit of looking into reveals that a
lot of raster data (fonts?) is embedded into the PS file, and this is
really slowing down the printing.

I would assume that if you have dvi2ps, you have dvi utilities to
print the dvi files directly?   I would like to know the reasons why
there is a need to print PS from a dvi file, and if so, is the
printing speed really acceptable on the PS printer being printed on.

The need to know this has a little bit of complicated background:
being mainly a VAX/VMS shop, people at my work dismiss the slowness of
printing dvi2ps output with the reasoning that the dvi file should be
printed by a dvi printing utility, since they are used to printing vdi
files directly from VAX/VMS (not that it prints much faster, our VAX
cluster is *very* slow).  I disagree with this, since I have seen
references to dvi2ps here many times, and that there must be a need
for it.

I would appreciate it if dvi2ps users could give me the following:

  Why use dvi2ps?
  On what make/model printer is it?
  Is the print speed acceptable?



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