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From: neil@uninet.cpd.com (Neil Gorsuch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Printer drivers
Message-ID: <1991Jan10.165953.19032@zardoz.cpd.com>
Date: 10 Jan 91 16:59:53 GMT
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In article <1991Jan10.003529.8634@csn.org!datran2> smb@csn.org!datran2 writes:
>Of course we do these things.  Geez...  The point I was trying to make is
>communications is the bottleneck, and a postscript cartridge is an elegant
>solution.  Barring that, most laser printer description languages allow you
>place bitmapped rectangles on the page.  Of course one wants to create
>bounding boxes in a smart fashion and not transmit any more white space than
>is optimal.
>But be warned, the worst case scenario is pretty bad.

Our SCSI based centronics parallel port will be ported to the NeXT next week.
The standard model does 30,000 characters per second.
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