Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!ejb From: ejb@think.com (Erik Bailey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: LaserWriter LS memory upgrade Message-ID: <1991Jun26.192636.629@Think.COM> Date: 26 Jun 91 19:26:36 GMT References: <1991Jun24.221858.12669@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Sender: news@Think.COM Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA Lines: 29 In article userMLAB@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA (Bob Bolt) writes: >In article , steveh@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (Steven Howell) writes: >> To upgrade a laserwrite LS from 512k to 1meg, simply plug into the >>spare DIP sockets 2x 44256 memory chips. these chips are the run of the mill >>256k x4 bits memories. >What will be gained by upgrading the memory of this printer. Will >it increase printing speed? image quality? image size? If anyone >has the answer, please spread the word. I have this printer and >it is a tad slow. Hopefully, a memory upgrade will speed it up >a little. > >Bob So far as I know, adding memory to a LW LS will do absolutely nothing, unless you have a page that is just so unbelievable, amazingly, intricately complex that the built-in image compression algorithms fail to reduce it to 512K (what is in the printer). I have yet to see this happen. BTW -- the printer itself is quite quick for a 4ppm machine. Remember that it does its imaging ON THE HOST COMPUTER, not in the printer, so a Mac IIfx will print faster than a Mac Plus. --Erik -- Erik Bailey | 7 Oak Knoll | Thinking Machines Corp. ejb@think.com | Arlington, MA 02174 | 245 First St. harvard!think!ejb | (617) 643-0732 | Cambridge, MA 02142 /earth is 98% full. Please remove any excess inhabitants.