Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uw-beaver Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!laser-lovers From: laser-lovers@uw-beaver Newsgroups: fa.laser-lovers Subject: What else besides the LaserWriter. Message-ID: <1540@uw-beaver> Date: Wed, 4-Sep-85 19:52:42 EDT Article-I.D.: uw-beave.1540 Posted: Wed Sep 4 19:52:42 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 5-Sep-85 10:59:11 EDT Sender: daemon@uw-beaver Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 18 From: Neal Holtz > Something a little faster than the Apple's 3.4 pages a minute. I hope this figure didn't come solely from some of the numbers bandied around laser-lovers. While that it is certainly close to what a lot of people (including myself) have quoted, almost all of those discussions were in the context of a (rather crude) DVI-Postscript driver that rather stupidly downloads all fonts. Obviously rate depends on usage. Multiple copies do indeed come out at the rate of 8 pages/min. (after the first copy of every page). A very simple lineprinter emulator (not the built-in one) that does nothing intelligent but paginate and recognize form-feeds, prints program listings at 5.5 pages/min (although a while back someone else was claiming only 3 ppm for a lineprinter emulator). Besides, there really is nothing wrong with 3.5 pages/minute on a relatively inexpensive device like this. At 50% duty cycle you can print 100,000 pages in 40 days. This is a low duty-cycle prin engine, remember.