[Gnome-print] Re: Gnome printing issues

[Robert L Krawitz <rlk alum mit edu>]

   From: hamzy@us.ibm.com
   Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:15:33 -0500

   > Can any of these printers (again, other than PostScript) handle mixed
   > text and graphics on the same page more efficiently than just
   > rasterizing?

   Yes.  You can mix text and raster graphics (along with high level graphics)
   with HP-GL/2.

In HP-GL/2, are the graphics in a high level form, or are they
dithered dots?

It sounds like what gimp-print needs to do to work with that is a raw
driver of some kind that can take an input graphic and output raw
dithered bitplane(s) for each color.

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