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Date:      Sat, 17 Jun 1995 02:06:10 +0200
From:      "Julian Stacey <jhs@freebsd.org>" <jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>
To:        Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: printer recommendation? 
Message-ID:  <199506170006.CAA10570@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 16 Jun 1995 05:00:16 %2B0200." <199506160300.UAA13976@rah.star-gate.com> 

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> 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 seem to drive my HP3P with a parallel port at full speed (4 pages per min
I recall is the quoted engine speed)

Of course, I'm downloading stuff that ghostscript has previously converted
from .ps to .pcl. not `on-the-fly'

I'm happy that ghostscript saves me the need of a PS cartridge :-)

Julian S



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