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Alen
Alen

Reputation: 145

Skip internal raster image processing of PostScript printer

Is there anyway to skip the internal ripping process of a postscript laser printer by using something like ghostscript to produce a directly printable rasterized image? From what I understand, a postscript laser printer receives a postscript print job from the printer driver and internally processes this to produce a printable rasterized image. My goal is to do this locally on a pc with more processing power to quickly keep large variable print jobs in ready-to-print form coming to the printer. Can anyone please help me crack this case? I have searched everywhere for information on this, but it's very difficult to come by. :(

By the way I have a Lexmark C782 with modified firmware and absolutely no documentation from Lexmark about the modifications. (Though this shouldn't be a problem.)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 310

Answers (1)

KenS
KenS

Reputation: 31199

If your printer supports some mode input mode other than PostScript, then yes, but it depends totally on your printer. It also means that you will be bypassing any optimisations the printer manufatcturer has built into their rip, sucah as enhancved screening, to produce higher quality output.

Upvotes: 1

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