Postscript emulation vs native support in printers

[AntaresVI]

I'm looking for a new printer for my school's student newspaper, and I'm looking at a Xerox and an HP. We print to it from Adobe Indesign CS, and i'm wondering how much it matters to have a printer that has built-in postscript 3 support. The Xerox does, but the HP only offers emulation.

Our current printer natively supports postscript 3, and we don't have any printing problems besides it being a piece of crap. If we switch to the HP, will we have printing output problems? And if so, is there a workaround?

Thanks.

 

[kpb]

For hp's laser printers the postscript emulation just means that they wrote the postscript on thier own rather than liscensing it from adobe. It's usually pretty good and doesn't cause any problems but there have been issues with it requiring firmware updates to fix. Xerox on the other hand pays adobe to use thier postscript which should ensure it always works right since adobe is the one that defines what postscript is anyway =)