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From: gerry@dialogic.UUCP (Gerry Lachac)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: The Printer Had A Hard Disk
Message-ID: <988@dialogic.UUCP>
Date: 9 Nov 89 15:10:29 GMT
References: <8911081356.AA26268@terra.oscs.montana.edu> <1014@umigw.MIAMI.EDU>
Reply-To: gerry@dialogic.UUCP (Gerry Lachac)
Organization: Dialogic Corp., Parsippany, NJ
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In article <1014@umigw.MIAMI.EDU> aem@Mthvax.CS.Miami.Edu writes:
>
>I suspect that it's useful for very very few people to have a hard
>disk for fonts.
>

Actually this is very far from being true.  A hard disk is extremely
useful for a Postscript printer. Remember, every time you print
something, the printer has to construct a "bitmap" from the font
outline.  This sucks up processor time.  With a hard disk, you can
build all the bitmaps that you use, and instead of constructing them
each time, you fetch them from the disk. This really speeds things up.

Don Lancaster had a good article in an old Computer Shopper about this.

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