Using NeWSPrint with PS printers

[Mike Hoegeman]

In article <1654 at brchh104.bnr.ca> number1!perl%step at uunet.uu.net (Robert Perlberg) writes:

| Please forgive my ignorance if I am wrong about this, but I was under the
| impression (based on a newspaper article) that NewsPrint translates
| PostScript to bitmaps which it transfers at high speed to non-PostScript
| printers.  I don't think you can use NewsPrint with a LaserWriter, nor do
| I think you could get practical use out of NewsPrint over a serial line.
| For printing to a LaserWriter, I think you need to use TranScript.


Well you are, in fact, wrong ( and forgiven ;-) )

You can use NeWSPrint with any Postscript printer including the
Laserwriter.  I use it with a NEC Postscript printer (Very much like a
LaserWriter).

When you set a up a printer under NeWSPrint you can tell it that the
printer is a postscript printer. It will then fall back to being a
transcript-like package.  Personally I like it much more than Transcript
as it is more flexible in how you can filter structured postscript
documents. The filters it comes with are nicer. It also allows you to add
your own filters, set up default behavior for various files types etc.

In short there are reasons for getting the NeWSPrint software package even
if you already have a PostScript printer.

-mike hoegeman, mh at roger.imsd.contel.com