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Re <9208110637.AA21850@cookie-crisp>
<23255.9208102315@thor.cf.ac.uk>:

> It's a bitmapped based printer i.e. you download a bit map into its
> memory and then tell it to print it, so I need a routine that returns an
> array of bytes that contains a complete bit map of the whole rendered
> page. Just like taking a screen dump of the ghostscript window. I've had
> a brief look at the gdevmem routines but I can't really make sense of
> what I need and don't need. What I want to do is send an initialisation
> string to the printer which says, here comes a bit map and then just
> send a complete dump of the page down. Is it too simple to expect to
> just have one procedure call that returns a complete bitmap? Hopefully
> not otherwise things will be more awkward. 
> 
> Is this the only laser printer that works in this way? 

Read the 'bit' driver.  Ghostscript can deliver one scan line at a
time, but it can't deliver the entire bitmap at once.

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