On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:48:19 -0700, Tabla Junkie
<tablajunkie@nospam.com> wrote:


With printers with dual personalities, you install two drivers -- I
have "HP4 Postscript" and HP4 PCL".

I don't know that PS is slower than PCL. I use PS almost exclusively.
You can speed up PS printing markedly (or at least reduce the size of
the print files) if you make fonts and such resident in the printer. I
download fonts I use using an old utility, WinPSx. I notice on Xerox's
site they have "fmuen.exe: CentreWare Font Management Utility. This
utility allows you to download PostScript, PCL or TrueType fonts to a
printer". I haven't used this, but it looks interesting.

Also in a PS printer's icon under "Properties|Postscript" you have an
option to download the PS header to the printer where it remains in
memory, and not with each job. If you look at a PS print file often
over 90% of it is this header.

Further, if you do get the hard disk, you won't have to do these
downloads every time you power on the printer as I do, but just once.
(The software should have options to download to RAM or HD.)