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From: kaz@cadovax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: S - L - O - W  Printer Device
Message-ID: <1326@cadovax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 17-Jan-87 20:29:37 EST
Article-I.D.: cadovax.1326
Posted: Sat Jan 17 20:29:37 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 19-Jan-87 06:00:52 EST
References: <1321@cadovax.UUCP> <1128@husc2.UUCP>
Reply-To: kaz@cadovax.UUCP (Kerry Zimmerman)
Organization: Contel Business Systems, Torrance, CA
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In article <1128@husc2.UUCP> wen@husc2.UUCP writes:
>In article <1321@cadovax.UUCP> keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) writes:
>>
>>A couple of friends of mine have recently bought Epson LQ-800's for their
>>Amigas.
>>Come to find out that a graphics print takes a good 35 minutes.
>
>I'm not familiar with the LQ-800, but it sounds like your printer driver has
>serious problems.  35 minutes is ridiculous.  Even the Okimate 20 does it in
>under 5.
>
>				A. Wen
>				wen@husc4.HARVARD.EDU
>				wen@harvunxu.BITNET


You missed the point of the original article.  It is definitly not the
driver that causes the printer to be so slow, it is the printer device.
I created a modified driver that did absolutely *NOTHING* (it just did
a  return(0) in each function)  and found that
"printing" a simple notepad note using the RUBY font with this nop'd 
driver still took a super long time.   Any graphics dump through the
printer device takes much too long regardless of the printer driver you
are using.

Kerry Zimmerman
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