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PostScript:
A Very Important Tool PostScript is a Page Description Language (PDL) that was developed by Adobe and that quickly became the industry standard for professional publishing. PostScript differs from other PDLs because it treats items on a page as geometric objects. When you print to a PostScript printer, PostScript commands are sent from your system in the form of text. This text contains exacting information about what is on the page. The text is received, understood and translated by the PostScript interpreter in your printer. Because of the simplicity of text commands and the consistency of PostScript interpreters, any PostScript printer will print the text information in the same way. Sending the same Postscript information to fifty different printers would yield the same results. PostScript font information follows the same principle which is why designers use them over inexact TrueType fonts. Consistency between your laser printer and a service bureau's or printer's imagesetter is an invaluable thing. PostScript interpreters come standard in Macintosh laser
printers and can sometimes be added to inkjet printers. The interpreters
are less common on the Windows side because the machines are marketed
as business machines rather than design machines. You can usually order
a PostScript interpreter for a laser printer and can sometimes get them
for inkjet printers. Without the PostScript option, the printer will not
take advantage of the PostScript technology and Postscript-based graphics,
like EPS files, will look terrible. Tip: There are Graphic Design classes in your area. Sign up for FREE information from top design schools.  Some
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ostScript
is the technology that really brought the desktop publishing industry
into the professional publishing world. Without it, I doubt you would
be reading this site and I certainly wouldn't have written it. Before
PostScript, designers working with computers didn't have the exacting
control over printed output that exists today.
