I agree.
Even my $150 Brother desktop printer has PostScript.
Again, though, it's not Adobe PostScript. I think it's called "BrotherScript".
Apparently, Ricoh feels that if you are purchasing a higher end printer, that you would want the real deal, and go for the Adobe version.
Then again, who knows what kind of relationships printer manufacturers have with Adobe...that's not for us mere mortals to know.
I have heard it the other way, Ricoh is not the problem, Adobe is. The home based printers maybe do 1k/year. The higher end printers 1M+/yr. Greed from Adobe makes Ricoh pay $$$ for the postscript capability. They know they have a captive market, ie, buy it or go without. Mac users get used to the little throw-away printers that work and blame the manufacturers when they should be blaming Adobe. I deal Ricoh and Kyocera and both have emulations now that for the most part work fine. Maybe the better question might be why is Apple so stubborn about surrendering to PCL? There are probably licensing restrictions there for Macs also.
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