Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 20:20:27 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net> Cc: atrn@zeta.org.au, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: keyboards Message-ID: <199910180120.UAA32824@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net> of "Sun, 17 Oct 1999 03:47:53 CDT." <38098D39.25692776@airnet.net>
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Kris Kirby writes: > > make a real difference. The cost of the printers is kept down by not > > having enough CPU or memory to perform the task. > > Tell me about it. I don't know what my inkjet has for a processor, but > it's only got 512K of RAM. I've got (insert anything here) with more > RAM! Ghostscript doesn't take that long on my P166 print-server though. > It's a shame that I can't use the printer's ink-saving options because I > don't use Windows. Oh well. Never stopped me before ;-). That's what I was saying about how we'll know Un*x has reached its majority (come of age) for the desktop market when/if manufacturers start providing drivers. Considering Un*x lacks a framework for such a driver is at least half of the problem. The closest thing to a solution I see is to include such a driver into Ghostscript. But GS is GPL. So it'll never happen. Kris, what in the world does your inkjet printer need 512k of RAM for? Printing graphics doesn't need to buffer much more than a head pass. Even less for text. Older HP InkJets included an Epson emulation mode for printing text. I believe the really new cheap ones offload everything on Windows just like the Apple StyleWriter offloaded everything on its MacOS driver. Same for the HP DeskJet. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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