martin@cube.han.de (Martin Ortlepp) (06/02/91)
At CeBit, I talked to some NeXT representatives who told me that there are printer drivers that support non-postscript printers. All I could find so far are drivers that only support text on them. Theoretically, there shouldn't be a problem since DisplayPostscript does all the tricky rendering and offers a way to do this device independent using arbitrary resolutions (I guess it's the machportdevice I'm talking about). The only thing is that I don't know how to transform such a program so that it'll act as a printer driver. Ultimately, I would like to print with the regular print function rather than calling a special routine from outside. Again, the NeXT Laserprinter is the best example that it has to work somehow. But how?