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From: phil@cs.mcgill.ca (Philip LOCONG)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: fast dvi driver for non-laser printer ?
Message-ID: <1991Mar8.100213.16888@cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: 8 Mar 91 10:02:13 GMT
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I have a CANON BJ printer but this applies to most dot-matrix printers
also. All the drivers I have seen send the entire images in graphics
mode. My printer is a 360 dpi and more than 50% of the time, the printer
seems to be waiting for the data to get through. But most of the text I
print is text (!) and I guess it would be much quicker to download
fonts to the printer. I realize that a dvi file is not "linear"
(from top to bottom) but it seems possible to isolate some parts of the
text that don't have any graphics. Is there a driver that does that?




Philippe Locong
phil@cs.McGill.CA