Adobe Post Script

Adobe® PostScript® 3™ is the worldwide printing and imaging standard. Used by print service providers, publishers, corporations, and government agencies around the globe, Adobe PostScript 3 gives you the power to print visually rich documents reliably. Adobe PostScript 3 printing technology is licensed to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) for building high-performance printing systems and print workflow solutions. As a scalable architecture, it can be easily integrated into a wide range of devices and technologies while maintaining the high quality and performance everyone expect from Adobe.

Printing systems equipped with Adobe® PostScript® 3™ offer state-of-the-art capabilities to meet the demanding requirements of both professional publishing and office environments. Adobe PostScript 3 technology provides a worldwide imaging standard that enables users to create reliable and efficient digital workflows.

Device-independent color support and other advanced features produce consistent, accurate output across a range of office and professional publishing devices. PostScript drives products from virtually every leading printer manufacturer.

PostScript 3 technology delivers support for transparent artwork in PDF 1.4 and 1.5 and support for JPEG 2000 and layers in PDF 1.5. Time-consuming rendering tasks can be split into multiple threads that can be processed simultaneously on multiple processors. Smooth shading renders gradient fills at the target device’s resolution, for high performance on most graphics. Idiom recognition automatically replaces PostScript generated by older applications for immediate access to smooth shading. Images are treated as layers so designers can cut out images without sacrificing speed or print reliability.