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From: andy@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: S - L - O - W  Printer Device
Message-ID: <1247@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 18-Jan-87 15:59:01 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 18 15:59:01 1987
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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.  We found a driver on Compuserve, and the source to one either there
>or somewhere else.
>
>Come to find out that a graphics print takes a good 35 minutes.
>
>I know that we are talking a 24 pin print head here, but that's a little
>out of hand.
>
>We also tried timing how long a print takes with a driver that has been
>stubbed out to do nothing.  It seems that it is not in the driver where
>it is spending the majority of it's time.
>
>My guess is that it is spending most of it's time in the 'printer.device'
>re-sampling the image to fit whatever is selected as margins in the 
>preferences.
The printer.device does not re-sample the image.
And you can get no scaling just by making the right call to
the DumpRPort function.
All you have to do is either write a screen dump program, or modify
one of the ones on the fish disk.

>MacIntosh, you only get x1 and x.5 and a hi-quality and draft mode) it
>causes output to be incredibly slow in some instances.
(Remember the Mac has 1 bitplane.  We have up to 5)

You can also send me the source to the driver, and I'll take a look
at it to see if there's anything obviously funny, if you want.
 
>Keith Doyle

			andy finkel

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