Orchid XP v8 schrieb:
>>> Obviously, very few devices *support* this stuff... (I would imagine 
>>> you only care spot colours and trappings if you're doing 
>>> industrial-grade printing.) But it's pretty crazy that it's in there, 
>>> all the same.
>>
>> Given that industrial-grade printing is where it originally came from, 
>> it's not too surprising after all :-)
> 
> Well, you say that, but it seems hard to imagine that the ordinary 
> everyday PostScript technology that we all use is the same stuff as they 
> use in industrial-grade printing applications. You'd think they would 
> use some highly-specialised top-secret proprietry system that costs 
> several billion dollars or something...

Yes. And some day a manufacturer of computers with a notoriously high 
price tag on them came and asked whether they could license the software 
to install it on the first office laser printers.

And guess what - the company that originally developed that 
highly-specialised system decided that yes, they wanted the extra income.

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