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From: kpottie@icarus.cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Pottie Karl)
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Subject: Re: StyleWriter/DeskWriter - Which to buy?
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Date: 30 May 91 19:12:45 GMT
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>The deskwriter is typically 4 to 5 times faster than a Stylewriter

>This is because the StyleWriter is rather brainless and relies on 
>the CPU to do most of the work.  If you hook the StyleWriter up to
>a fast CPU, the difference in performance is amazing.  In fact 
>my recommendation is DeskWriter for a Plus/SE/Classic and 
>StyleWriter for 68030 machines. 

In fact, when I measured the difference between the Deskwriter and
StyleWriter, the Stylewriter was on an SI and the Deskwriter was on
and SE/30. So in fact the Stylewriter was hooked to a faster computer.
Typical figures for a complex page of text and graphics:
  Deskwriter : 80 seconds
  Stylewriter : 347 seconds 

So even with a fast computer, the Stylewriter is amazingly slow.
Even slower than my old Grappler LQ & Epson combination, which printed
the same page in 220 seconds. And most people consider the Grappler
as being very slow.