This chapter describes the varioPRINT 6000 series specific extensions of Adobe PostScript 3, version 3020.101.
PostScript is an interpretive Page Description Language, capable of transmitting text, graphical objects and sampled images to a PostScript printer or display.
The PRISMAsync supports Adobe PostScript 3.
PostScript is the de facto Page Description Language in today’s office and documentation environments. These environments require the printing of both text and advanced graphics independently of the used application and printer.
The PostScript language is independent of the printer in regard to the page description characteristics. As a printer control language, PostScript is not completely independent of the printer since the language cannot anticipate to all possible printer features which will be developed in the future. Therefore, specific printer features are provided by the application/client, which converts an application data file to the print file that is sent to the PostScript printer. The application/client uses the extensions to the PostScript language, which are only understood by the particular device they are made for.
PostScript Language Reference Manual, 3rd edition
Adobe Systems Incorporated, 1999, ISBN 0-201-37922-8.