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From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
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Subject: Re: Any comments on the Laserwriter LS?
Message-ID: <1991Mar21.185247.9355@convex.com>
Date: 21 Mar 91 18:52:47 GMT
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In article <1991Mar18.162349.8488@macc.wisc.edu> yahnke@macc.wisc.edu writes:
>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 was able to print about 2-3 ppm from my IIsi.  The fastest way
to print, I found, was to turn background printing on, then select
"shut down" and click the option that says "finish printing before
shutting down."  This locks up the machine so that printing gets
*all* the CPU time.