PrintGear Pros and Cons

September 1996 / Reviews / Quality Printing, Fast and Cheap / PrintGear Pros and Cons

Adobe's PrintGear architecture divides document interpretation between the computer's device driver software and the printer's PrintGear Imaging Processor chip. The driver represents the most common Windows pr int elements in the most compact way for a smaller data stream and a faster return to your application.
On the downside, a PrintGear printer's processor and its corresponding device driver form an integrated -- and inseparable -- system. Adobe has no plans to publish a single PrintGear standard and doesn't guarantee that different PrintGear printers can interpret each other's data streams.

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