Re: [OT] Printer with or without Postscript

[Johan Vromans]

On Mon, 19 Oct 2015 10:59:42 -0500
David Wright <address@hidden> wrote:

> A very common workflow but IMO a very poor one. If you have problems
> printing, where do you start looking for the cause? (for example,
> artifacts like those in the right side of your lpev.png).
> 
> I only ever print from applications to a file. Then I print the file.

How do you print? cat > /dev/printer? lpr? A viewer? Except for the first,
they all involve 'hidden' software between the physical PostScript file and
the physical printout.

> Having eventually downloaded that PNG (squirrel.nl disappeared from
> google's nameservers for a while) I wondered whether the images are
> rescans of printouts through glass, or generated through computation.

Two rescans at high density, glued together in GIMP.

-- Johan