Printers usually fall into two categories, they are either PostScript (PS) or Printer Control Language (PCL) printers. Both PostScript and Printer Control Language are page descriptive languages. This ...

The latest OS X 10.6.5 release has a bug in the printing system that will prevent postscript files from being printed in landscape view. This will affect many programs that handle postscript files, ...

PostScript, or PS is a common printing language used by many printer manufacturers. PostScript may be common; however, it is not found available for many printers. PostScript is used in high-end ...

Postscript is all but gone, and today, newer font standards such as TrueType and OpenType rule the roost. Here's how we got from desktop PostScript in the early '80s to today. When the Mac first ...

If you print PostScript graphics -- such as Encapsulated PostScript files created in drawing programs and page-layout applications -- to a non-PostScript office printer, you'll see either a gray box ...

Last week we talked about the Global Driver, today let’s look at printer languages and which one might be best for your print jobs. We get many questions about the differences between PostScript and ...

Where I work, we have a few mac (OS 9.2) that need to print to the same printers as some windows machines. The printers are 2 x HP 4100 N, HP Laserjet 4si, and Tektronics Phaser 860. All of these ...

Some time ago, I played a bit with setting up some printers using a2ps filters (in trying to standardize things to use postscript). There's even a post here about this. The basic stuff works fairly ...

As of the new macOS Ventura, Apple's Preview app will no longer support PostScript or Encapsulated PostScript documents. Following the public release of macOS Ventura, Apple has issued a support ...

Last week, we talked about the Global Driver. Today, let’s look at printer languages and which one might be best for your print jobs. We get many questions about the differences between PostScript and ...