[gs-devel] GS as a PS RIP on Ricoh printers

[Ken Sharp]

At 13:13 10/10/2011 +0200, Marc Antoni Malagarriga i Picas wrote:


>My question is about the availability of any GS implementation on Ricoh 
>laser printers (like Ricoh Aficio C4000 RPCS), as a PS RIP, in order to 
>enable the PCL device as a PostScript Printer.
>
>The GNU Ghostscript poject has any solution about this? ...or this is a 
>question only for Artifex Software Inc.?

This sounds more like a question for Ricoh!

It sounds like you are asking for an after-market peripheral or upgrade 
which will transform a Ricoh PCL printer into a PCL+PS printer ?


>Ricoh, in this field, have expensive solutions through Adobe PostScript 
>RIPs, and only for the newest printer models.

Well, we don't know what hardware is in any given Ricoh printer, and we 
don't have access to their firmware, so we can't create a modified version 
which would include a PostScript rip.

The inclusion of page description languages is really something for the 
printer manufacturer, and you should probably take this up with Ricoh.

As a work-around, you could always use Ghostscript to create a (potentially 
large) PCL file from your input PostScript, and send that to the printer.



                 Ken