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To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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Subject: Re: printer recommendation? 
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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>
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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