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From: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: HP Laserjet not working under SCO Unix
Message-ID: <1990Oct05.154310.21566@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us>
Date: 5 Oct 90 15:43:10 GMT
References: <4@pcssc.UUCP> <14574@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Reply-To: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine)
Organization: Segue Software, Cambridge MA
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In article <14574@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt0178a@prism.gatech.EDU (Jim Burns) writes:
>The limiting factor for graphics should be the processing and printing
>time, NOT the xfer rate.

A 6x10" image at 300dpi is over 600K bytes.  Even assuming some reasonable
zero compression, it's often 400K.  If you assume a rather optimistic 10K
bytes/sec for your parallel port, that's still 40 seconds per page, which
is much slower than the printer prints.

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