On Sun, 16 Jan 2000 13:14:48 -0500 (EST) 
 David Evans <dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

 >   But the concept doesn't *have* to suck.  It was pretty workable on black
 > NeXT hardware.  Was it Sun's software or hardware that made it so bad?

There was a pretty key difference in the NeXT case -- the NeXT used
PostScript for *everything*, including the display.  So, no "extra" work
was necessary to render the image for the printer.

Unfortunately, the NeXT printers have their problems, too (let's hear it
for plastic gears!), and you can't exactly use a different printer on a
NeXT :-)

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>