Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 13:55:06 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: printer recommendation? Message-ID: <199506160425.NAA02155@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199506160300.UAA13976@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty" at Jun 15, 95 08:00:16 pm
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Amancio Hasty stands accused of saying: > I am planning to buy a postscript printer. Is there a significance > performance advantage of having an ethernet interface or how > fast can we drive a parallel interface to a printer? I've never seen a laser printer that would take much more than 100K/sec via a parallel interface; the Laserjet 4 ethernet interface I've played with seemed to be happy with several times that. AFAIK, you can configure them to use the LPR protocol as well, so they're effectively a network printer. If you're doing PS, get the _fastest_ processor you can - ps isn't terribly bulky (unless you have lots of bitmaps with it), but rendering it can take an age. > Amancio -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[
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