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Re: Postscript and PCL in the MIT Printing Environment

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Whitson)
Tue Apr 25 14:53:22 2000

To: "Rocklyn E. Clarke" <RCLARKE@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: Enterprise Print Delivery Team <PRINTDEL@MIT.EDU>,
        Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>, Jeff Banta <jeffbant@us.ibm.com>,
        Lynne E Durland <durland@MIT.EDU>
From: Mike Whitson <mwhitson@MIT.EDU>
Date: 25 Apr 2000 14:53:12 -0400
In-Reply-To: "Rocklyn E. Clarke"'s message of "Tue, 25 Apr 00 10:51:09 EDT"
Message-Id: <n91pure9fmv.fsf@tiassa.mit.edu>

The Athena printing system officially supports taking input in the
form of Postscript and plaintext, and sending Postscript to the
printers (plaintext is converted to PS).  LPRng can theoretically deal
with taking PCL input and sending PCL to the printers, but we don't
officially support it.

-mike

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