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by criddell 2515 days ago
Do you know if the layout engines for laser printers do subpixel stuff?
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Most laser printers tend to use PostScript (a Turing complete language), which does not know about displays hardly at all. It does arbitrary positioning.
> It does arbitrary positioning.

So are you saying that whether or not subpixel effects are accounted for is implementation dependent?