Postscript

Does the Postscript driver works normally on most printers?

Here on a Brother MFC (PS3 compatible), I have only blank pages.
The Brother stays quiet with PCL, Brother or LaserJet drivers.

I tried also with Gutenprint: same result.

The standard PS printer driver is a PS2 implementation.

The PS3 implementation is only available as a paid addition from Mr. Wurthner – you have Gutenprint so I guess you have the PS3 driver.
Bit rusty on reading PCL¹ but the standard drivers do up to PCL4 or 5

¹ OK, call me weird but debugging the output from a system by sending to a file and reading it in a text editor having memorized a fair subset of the escape codes was what was needed so I did it.

If that’s weird, call me weird too.

I have all the possible drivers :)
And none works :(

Same technique as examining PCL output – shove it to a file and check the content. Print something very simple (text)

Remember, PS is just a page description in very verbose form.

A PostScript 3 printer should accept data in PostScript 2 format.
I have seen printers that accept PCL & PostScript but one or both modes need to be selected with commands at the beginning of the print file.

Using a Windows PC set it to print to file and for each language print something like “AAAAAABBBBBBBBCCCCCCCCCCC”!

Then examine the printout.

Are you sure it’s a PS or PCL enabled printer? I’ve had a Brother laser printer here which only spat out blank pages until I discovered it was a cheap GDI printer and not PCL or PS compatible.

This one is PS3 printer. No GDI. No cheap either :)