Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!ox.com!b-tech!zeeff From: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi Subject: Re: Why scsi printers? Info wanted. Message-ID: <+++-+TA@b-tech.uucp> Date: 15 Feb 91 15:20:36 GMT References: Distribution: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.periphs.printers Organization: Branch Technology Lines: 10 >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 Every try to rapidly print 600K bitmaps on a laser printer? Currently we have to use a PC with a coprocessor board that talks to the printer via the video interface. A scsi laserprinter would probably eliminate the need for the PC and coprocessor. -- Jon Zeeff (NIC handle JZ) zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us