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viccar
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[ATTACH=CONFIG]1728[/ATTACH]Can someone explain this in very easy terms please. Because its gobbeldy gook to me.

Some postscript specific print settings (interpolation calibration encoding) will be ignored since you are printing to a non-postscript printer

It did this this morning after an update, ive printed 4 pages and it seems to be ok, so just wondering and do i ignore it?
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Postscript was one of the original page description languages, - it was certainly the most expensive, often the slowest, but generally the most accurate and reliable too.
I think this must relate to a laser printer issue.
laser printers create the whole page inside them, and print it out all in one go, .....
as oppose to inkjet/laserjet etc
that print the page line by line by line
the difference being that the PC that has the page to be printed can either:
send the page in 1 go, - or send it to the printer line by line.
So - as i understand it, - from say 20 years ago to more recently
PS drivers were the ideal for page printers (aka laser printers) - but they were costly because they had (adobe?) licencing - so were often unavailable, and tended to be slow because they placed accuracy above speed.
PCL was another option, cheaper or more easily available, tended to be faster, but more often with page mistakes.
This is all from memory, I don't recall many page printing errors these days!
We did used to get errors similar to the one you show, but if the page loooked ok, we ignored them, if we didn't like the page, we printed with one of the other drivers that came with the kit until we were happy with the result.
Now I think back, we often had half a dozen different drivers for each of our (very expensive) laser printers, and after out favourite, would swap through them until we got our best results.
back in the day, fonts also used to reside in the printer, and you could either use resident font, emulated fonts, or fonts in substitution mode.
I am soooooo pleased I have forgotten all this!
Basically, if the page looks great, ignor.
If you are not happy with the result, then time to play with settings, - best way to do this is load another printer driver (the same one) - give it a different name, and explore the eps settings.
You will find graphics forums with greater expertise than i have here, vary happy to have forgotten!
I await additional comment with more detail than I can share, but basically, if you are happy with the result, don't worry!
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Thanks for the reply, I think i understand that, :confused: just,
i will just ignore it then, its printing to my ricoh using powerdriver, so shouldnt make a difference then.
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your supplier might help, but I don't think it is anything to worry about.
As mentioned, it is a graphics issue, there are Postscript forums, but they can be very technical!
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