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what is postscript in the case of printer

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what is mean by postscript in the case of printer

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George Standish (george-standish-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

PostScript is a method or format of outputting to a printed page. Prior to PostScript I believe all (or most) printing was only unformatted text - think character based dot-matrix output (if you know what that is). PostScript allowed for different fonts to be used rather then just a single unformatted output font.

For some more information, or different explanation you might want to see:

http://desktoppub.about.com/b/2003/07/25/postscript-printer-qa.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript

Good luck,
George

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