There is an apocryphal story* where the fancy new laser printer was having strange issues and would become unresponsive for long periods of time. The sysadmin tasked with figuring it out managed to trace it down to one user who kept sending strange print jobs that took forever and never printed anything. When asked about the jobs the programmer said that the processor in the printer was much more powerful than anything else in the company so he added a postscript target to his engineering programs so they ran simulations on the printer.
* That is, I don't remember where where I first heard it, probably a usenet post somewhere
I heard it about Berthold K P Horn https://www.eecs.mit.edu/people/berthold-horn/, professor of machine vision. And it was extra convenient because he wanted to output the result of the computation as an image anyway, and what better way than with a high-quality printer?
My officemate Paul Heckbert wrote a ray tracer in PostScript after we realized that the laser printer's processor was much more powerful than our "real" computer. As you might expect, the interpreted PostScript ray tracer was extremely slow but it did eventually generate an image, I think at 32x32 resolution.
* That is, I don't remember where where I first heard it, probably a usenet post somewhere