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From: yahnke@macc.wisc.edu
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Subject: Re: Any comments on the Laserwriter LS?
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.162349.8488@macc.wisc.edu>
Date: 18 Mar 91 16:23:49 GMT
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In article <1991Mar17.123455.9416@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
hofbauer@csri.toronto.edu (John Hofbauer) writes:
>A few people have posted their initial impressions of the Stylewriter
>but I haven't seen anything on the LS. Any comments/impressions out
>there? 
>
Nice resolution but slower than a dog. The 4 ppm rate is only 
achieved when you're printing duplicates of the same page. 
Text only pages are spit out at around one every 40 seconds,
and if you do background printing the speed drops to about
one page per every four minutes. (This done on an SE/30, by the 
way...) 

I suspect either the TrueType fonts and the serial connection
are to blame for this lackluster speed. Printing a TIFF image
to the LS and to an NTX takes the same amount of time.