Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!stanford.edu!agate!riacs!pioneer.arc.nasa.gov!woo From: woo@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Alex Woo RAA) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: NeXT printer Summary: Pretty Fast Message-ID: <1991May3.145543.28835@riacs.edu> Date: 3 May 91 14:55:43 GMT Sender: news@riacs.edu Organization: NASA Ames Res. Ctr. Mtn Vw CA 94035 Lines: 60 Here are the results of a PostScript benchmark we recently posted to comp.laser-printers and comp.periphs.printers. As you can see, the new NeXT is pretty fast. Perhaps we should drop this NeXT Terminal discussion and the monitor altogether and suggest that NeXT just sell a printer... :-) LaserDoctor Results PRINTER VERSION TIME SUBMITTER ==================================================================== Agfa P3400PS 48.1 23.886 martin@typeset.ulcc.ac.uk Apple LaserWriter Plus 38.0 113.474 martin@typeset.ulcc.ac.uk Apple LaserWriter Plus 38.0 115.064 Carmicha@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov Apple LaserWriter II NT 47.0 62.006 Carmicha@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov Apple LaserWriter II NT 47.0 81.798 glewis@fws204.intel.com Apple LaserWriter IINTX 47.0 21.856 jjwcmp@ultb.isc.rit.edu DEC Printserver 40 48.3 9.29 Carmicha@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov DEC Printserver 20 48.3 25.9 glewis@fws204.intel.com DEC Scriptprinter 47.2 59.33 kosower@fnal.fnal.gov DEC Scriptprinter 47.2 59.432 dayhoff@ddnvx1.af.mil DEC VAXStation 3100 1006.5 20.864 dayhoff@ddnvx1.af.mil Ghostscript Sparc 2 2.1.1 13.6 jknowles@trident.arc.nasa.gov Ghostscript SUN 3/280 2.1 16.34 russ@artsci.toronto.edu HP LJ II 52.3 81.832 jcm@naperville.att.com HP LJ IIP w Adobe PS 70.035 lilianstrom@fnal.bitnet HP LJ III w Pac CE270 2.28 345.8 panda%dad@whgsu.att.com HP LJ III w Adobe PS 52.2 73.765 dbraun@ira.uka.de HP LJ III w Adobe PS 52.2 65.49 ericrot@rosevax.rosemount.com HP LJ IIIsi 5.614 lilianstrom@krang.fnal.gov HP PS Jet+ 46.1 84.56 colsa,inc. Huntsville Imagen Ultra 5.0TIP/II 14.1 50.864 thomas@wk213.nas.nasa.gov Lino L300/RIP II(1270) 51.8 25.646 martin@typeset.ulcc.ac.uk Lino L300/RIP 4 (1270) 51.8 20.745 jjwcmp@ultb.isc.rit.edu Newgen TurboPS 400 47.0 8.53 dbraun@ira.uka.de NeXT 1.0a '030 1006.24 9.344 Woo@ames.arc.nasa.gov NeXT 2.0 '040 2000.6 2.272 jchin@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca QMS-PS 2000 52.4 1.903 qmsseq!lyle QMS-PS 800 II 47.0 44.766 woo@ames.arc.nasa.gov QMS-PS 810 47.2 43.074 ssmullen@utcvm.bitnet QMS-PS 810 Turbo 51.7 15.421 woo@ames.arc.nasa.gov QMS-PS 820 51.7 15.512 qmsseq!lyle QMS-PS 820 47.0 44.652 larryp@sco.com QMS-PS 2210 51.0 17.223 jjwcmp@ultb.isc.rit.edu Qume CrystalPrint Pub 200.0 7.66 sysnmc@chron.com Ricoh PC Laser 6000/PS 50.5 43.057 koga@ames.arc.nasa.gov SUN SPARC I printer 2.1 25.680 kubicar@sun.com Talaris 1590-T(firmware) 1.3 38.94 dstivend@cmsa.gmr.com Talaris 1590-T 1.3 77.69 kosower@fnala.fnal.gov TI Omnilaser 2115 47.0 57.572 sullivan@alw.nih.edu TI Microlaser 52.1 55.45 sysnmc@chron.com P.S. This is not a great benchmark since these times represent internal postscript time to print a wheel of text. But they are the only ones we could find. ======================================================================== Alex Woo, MS 227-6 woo@ames.arc.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center __o NASAMAIL ACWOO Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000 -\<, SPANET 24582::WOO (415) 604-6010 (FAX) 604-4357 .....O/ O {hplabs,decwrl,uunet}!ames!woo ========================================================================