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Will work on vastly differing printers as well
Authored by: earthy on Jan 29, '03 09:24:29AM

Actually, given the capabilities of CUPS, which is used as the printing system on Mac OS X 10.2 and higher, this will work even across vastly differing printers. So, if you originally print e.g. to a HP DeskJet 500, and then move the job to a queue on a Xerox DocuTech, it should just Do The Right Thing, and translate the data accordingly. Note that you may or may not get more out of the printer you move to than you could out of the printer you originally printed to.

This kinda depends on whether the data printed to the printqueue was directly printer-optimised or not. So, e.g., printing a PDF should result in good-looking output no matter what printer you printed to. However, printing a rendered bitmap will result in the bitmap being printed at the lower resolution of the two printers.



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