This chapter describes the Océ VarioPrint 6000 Series specific extensions of Adobe PostScript 3 in detail.
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 which require the printing of both text and advanced graphics in an application and printer-independent manner.
The PostScript language is device-independent in regard to the page description characteristics. As a printer control language, PostScript is not completely printer-independent since the language can not anticipate to all possible engine features which will be developed in the future. Therefore, specific engine 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.
Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) offers an application- and device-independent interchange format for the representation of electronic documents. The supported version is 1.7.
A PDF document is designed for efficient random access and includes navigational information suitable for interactive viewing. PDF and PostScript share the same underlying Adobe imaging model. A document can be converted between PDF and the PostScript language. Printer specific features are controlled via a job ticket.
PDF Reference, Sixth Edition
Adobe® Portable Document Format Version 1.7, Adobe Systems Incorporated.
PostScript Language Reference Manual, 3rd edition
Adobe Systems Incorporated, 1999, ISBN 0-201-37922-8.
PostScript Language Reference Supplement: Adobe PostScript3 Version 3010 and 3011 Product Supplement
Adobe Systems Incorporated, 30 August 1999.