[wplug] plotters

[John Harrold]

Sometime in June Rick Smith assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| I am a stock holder and ex-firmware engineer who worked on
| plotters for 15 years, from the old vector machines through the
| transition to raster w/postscript and finally the moving of
| engineering from San Diego to Barcelona.

so could you come by and fix our 8000dn brick. it keeps jamming on paper
from the second tray :).

| A piece of the puzzle you need to understand is what languages
| do your application(s)-which-plot speak?
| 
| There are a few languages the plotters use:
| Postscript, PCL, HP-GL/2, direct render of jpg, tiff and the like.
| Probably more today since I've away from it for so long.

most of the stuff we generate will be done in latex. so postscript is going
to be a must. we may have to print powerpoint stuff on occasion, and i
think windows can generate pcl. i kind of assumed that postscript would be
supported and most hardware would have windows drivers-bad assumption?

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