Re: postscript printers for lilypond

[karl]

David:
> address@hidden writes:
> 
> >  I'm looking for a new printer since the old one was fried by the
> > lighting (i.e. the thunder thing, not light in the room).
> 
> That doesn't help at all regarding your question, but the thunder thing
> is called "lightning" unlike the light in the room.

Sigh, why do the english spell thoose two so like each other.

> > It seems that colour lasers are all glossy and some b/w one too.
> > Inkjet, e.g. HP pagewide and WF-C8190DTW are superbly matte but their
> > blacks don't cover the area (there are small white dots all over) and
> > the edges are irregular, not sharp. The Kyocera TASKalfa is superbly
> > sharp but the blacks gives glare in the wrong light (as it always are)
> > and it don't handle lilyponds postscript.
> 
> "it don't handle lilyponds postscript" according to which test?

Sending it to the printer gave me a surplus of waste paper - so I kind 
of turned off error reports in the printer after that.

>  I just
> recently removed a Ghostscriptism (using max/mix operators) that would
> have made regular PostScript interpreters barf.  Maybe that's fixed in
> master now?

I'll try that, though there where some problems with the guile version 
and some fonts last time I compiled lilypond.

Regards,
/Karl Hammar

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