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Subject: Re: TIFF Printing and Storage Optimization
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Sam Leffler writes:
> I'm probably out of touch, but I do not believe that PSL2 is commonly
> available on printers.

Most new PS printers I have seen the last two years use Adobe PSL2,
and some have really good CPU performance as well.  But this may of
course vary between vendors, markets, price tags...

> As an example, SGI sells a printer+software that's hooked to the
> host via SCSI and the RIP is done on the host.  In this case there's
> not a whole lot of reason to optimize the submitted PS 'cuz it's all
> done on the host.

Agree.  A lot of (PC-hosted) printer accelerators are designed in
similar ways; as most laser printers include some kind of auxiliary
I/O or "video interface" one can use the host CPU together with some
dedicated hardware to do tricks the plain printer cannot.

If PSL2/CCITT isn't appropriate, I'd consider calling Xionics.

	/F

