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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A scalable font technology from Adobe that renders fonts for both the printer and the screen. PostScript fonts come in Type 1 and Type 3 formats. Type 1 fonts use a simple, efficient command language ...

Some users of QuarkXpress 6.0 have had problems creating PDF (portable document file) documents using the standard "Save as PDF..." option in Mac OS X's print dialog ...

The Computer History Museum (CHM) has, with Adobe's permission, released the source code for an early version of PostScript, a programming language developed in the early 1980s by Adobe, which helped ...

There was a time when each and every printer and typesetter had its own quirky language. If you had a wordprocessor from a particular company, it worked with the printers from that company, and that ...

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 ...