From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 16 12:27:14 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA13832 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 16 Jun 1995 12:27:14 -0700 Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA13824 for ; Fri, 16 Jun 1995 12:27:13 -0700 Received: from gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com ([13.252.21.73]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <14808(1)>; Fri, 16 Jun 1995 12:26:25 PDT Received: from gnu.mc.xerox.com (gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com) by gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA28210; Fri, 16 Jun 95 15:26:16 EDT Received: by gnu.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA16085; Fri, 16 Jun 95 15:29:54 EDT Message-Id: <9506161929.AA16085@gnu.mc.xerox.com> To: Peter da Silva Cc: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw, mrcpu@cdsnet.net, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: printer recommendation? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 16 Jun 1995 11:17:33 PDT." <199506161817.NAA15275@bonkers.taronga.com> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 12:29:52 PDT From: "Marty Leisner" Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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