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Date:      Fri, 16 Jun 1995 12:29:52 PDT
From:      "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
To:        Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com>
Cc:        taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw, mrcpu@cdsnet.net, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: printer recommendation? 
Message-ID:  <9506161929.AA16085@gnu.mc.xerox.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 16 Jun 1995 11:17:33 PDT." <199506161817.NAA15275@bonkers.taronga.com> 

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In message <199506161817.NAA15275@bonkers.taronga.com>,   you write:
>> You don't need anything faster than a parallel port.
>
>Unless you're printing big bitmapped images, in which case you do.

Like I said, only if the resolution of the image is the same as
the resolution of the printer...

If not, you'll spend more time in the decomposer then transfering
bits...

And parallel ports can go at about 100Kbytes/second...which is 
about the speed on an ethernet that's doing anything things...

marty



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