[Info-vax] Direct print of PDF files on PDF compatible printers.

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-03-02, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
> Den 2022-03-02 kl. 11:56, skrev Phillip Helbig (undress to reply):
>> My wife bought a (now defunct) cheap Canon bubblejet printer which
>> printed PDF fine but I couldn't figure out how to print PostScript on
>> it.
>
> That *printer* did probably not support either PS or PDF. The printer
> driver convert a PDF document to whatever the printer uses. And a
> PS file is probably just regarded as "text".
>
> You are mixing up the printer with the printer driver in the host OS.
>

Indeed. On Linux, back when I was using inkjets, the dumb PCL-only
inkjet was also a nice Postscript printer thanks to Ghostscript. :-)

Simon.

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