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This used
to be true, but now almost no one does their own RIPs. I seem to recall that even HP licenses
someone else’s PCL RIP in at least some, if not all, their current printer
lines. There aren’t many true
Adobe Postscript RIPs left either.
Again, the clones have undercut the originators’ market (or perhaps the
originators have priced themselves out of the market, depending on your point
of view I suppose). You can
find all the gory details in back issues of the Hardcopy Observer, but printer
RIPs are now commodity items with printer manufacturers choosing the lowest
priced provider. Regards, Rob __________________________ Rob McDougall,
Technical Architect Indigo Pacific
Limited Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (in order to email
me, remove the underscores) -----Original
Message----- It is my understanding
that the printers that are PDF native, have a PDF RIP installed in them.
This means that a fee was paid to Adobe for the right of the technology, just
like postscript. If you have a PCL printer other than HP, that company
like Cannon paid HP for the it. Mike Young -----Original
Message-----
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- RE: [PDFdev] Curious - PDF printers stephen . hirsch
- RE: [PDFdev] Curious - PDF printers Young, Mike
- RE: [PDFdev] Curious - PDF printers Rob McDougall
- RE: [PDFdev] Curious - PDF printers Petr Sojka
