From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 15 21:32:08 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA23301 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 15 Jun 1995 21:32:08 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA23293 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 1995 21:32:02 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id NAA02155; Fri, 16 Jun 1995 13:55:07 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199506160425.NAA02155@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: printer recommendation? To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 13:55:06 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199506160300.UAA13976@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty" at Jun 15, 95 08:00:16 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1081 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 [[