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cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu (Charles William Swiger) writes:
: Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next: 29-Oct-92 Re: ghostscript for next
: by John B. Lockhart@eecom.g 
: > As a third party, I can take two guesses:
: >  
: > - Ghostscript can *print*
: > - Ghostscript can *fax* (with additional (free) software)
: 
: This begs the question.  Ghostscript is a free program that will
: interpret postscript.  I can't think of *anything* you can do with it
: that you couldn't do directly on the NeXT.  Bring up whatever file it is
: in Preview, and use the print panel to either fax or print...
: 

Ghostscript has support for several non-Postscript printers which 
NeXTSTEP 3.0 does not support (beyond EPSON LQ-510, IBM Proprinter 24, and
HP DeskJet 500).  I can see this as a reason to use it.  Perhaps I'm missing
something that someone else can clarify.  According to the devs.mak file
distributed with ghostscript, you can print on the following:

  bj10e   Canon BubbleJet BJ10e
  cdeskjet  H-P DeskJet 500C with 1 bit/pixel color
  cdjcolor  H-P DeskJet 500C with 24 bit/pixel color and
            high-quality color (Floyd-Steinberg) dithering
  cdjmono  H-P DeskJet 500C printing black only
  deskjet  H-P DeskJet and DeskJet Plus
  dfaxhigh  DigiBoard, Inc.'s DigiFAX software format (high resolution)
  dfaxlow  DigiFAX low (normal) resolution
  djet500  H-P DeskJet 500
  djet500c  H-P DeskJet 500C
  epson   Epson-compatible dot matrix printers (9- or 24-pin)
  eps9high  Epson-compatible 9-pin, interleaved lines
            (triple resolution)
  epsonc  Epson LQ-2550 and Fujitsu 3400/2400/1200 color printers
  laserjet  H-P LaserJet
  la50    DEC LA50 printer
  la75    DEC LA75 printer
  lbp8    Canon LBP-8II laser printer
  ln03    DEC LN03 printer
  lj250   DEC LJ250 Companion color printer
  ljet2p  H-P LaserJet IId/IIp/III* with TIFF compression
  ljet3   H-P LaserJet III* with Delta Row compression
  ljetplus  H-P LaserJet Plus
  necp6   NEC P6/P6+/P60 printers at 360 x 360 DPI resolution
  nwp533  Sony Microsystems NWP533 laser printer   [Sony only]
  paintjet  H-P PaintJet color printer
  pjetxl  H-P PaintJet XL color printer
  r4081   Ricoh 4081 laser printer
  tek4696  Tektronix 4695/4696 inkjet plotter


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Kurt Bollacker                                  kdb@dukebar.mc.duke.edu
Duke University Medical Center                             919-660-5104
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