Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!uunet!ogicse!littlei!gandalf!andyc From: andyc@bucky.intel.com (Andy Crump) Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi Subject: Why scsi printers? Info wanted. Message-ID: Date: 14 Feb 91 08:45:51 GMT Sender: news@littlei.UUCP Distribution: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.periphs.printers Organization: Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, Oregon Lines: 27 I have heard talk about postscript printers with SCSI interface. One use of the scsi interface is so that the printer can have a local disk to store fonts. But I have heard talk that the scsi interface can be used as a communication mechanism. I am not clear on what the advantage is to a SCSI printer. It seems to me that the speed of the print mechanism is by far the limiting factor to print speed, not the I/O port. Unless the SCSI postscript printer has ALOT of local memory to queue up jobs... Most printers can't keep up at 9600 baud anyway. Why would anyone want to use SCSI as their I/O channel to a printer? What printers implement this and how are they used? How pervasive are SCSI printers, where SCSI is used as the communication channel? Inquiring minds want to know. Thanks, -- -- Andy Crump ...!tektronix!reed!littlei!andyc | andyc@littlei.intel.com ...!uunet!littlei!andyc | andyc@littlei.uu.net Disclaimer: Any opinions expressed here are my own and not representive of Intel Corportation.