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From: louie@trantor.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
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Subject: Re: Laser_Printers
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Date: 28 Jul 88 13:59:16 GMT
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In article <280@nfsun.UUCP> kgeisel@nfsun.UUCP (kurt geisel) writes:
>C-Ltd. has announced a 300 DPI Amiga Laser Printer.  It is SCSI-based and will
>supposedly print faster in a network than a Laser Writer, because it does
>page building on the Amiga.  An article in the July 1988 Computer Shopper
>magazine listed it at $2500.


This price is't signifantly cheaper than a PostScript page printer.  Why
would I want to use the processor in the Amiga to do "page building" when I
can off-load that computational task to the processor in the printer?

One of the large reasons that printing in a "network" is slow, is because
networks are slow (read: Appletalk).  I've got my PostScript printer on
a Parallel port, and it goes plenty fast for me.  It also does HP laserjet+
emulation for stuff that want to use that (like the Amiga printer drivers,
etc).

Also note, that at least for the old A1000 SCSI host adaptor, the C Ltd
SCSI interface doesn't do DMA.  Hard to see where this might be faster
than a parallel port.  



Louis A. Mamakos  WA3YMH    Internet: louie@TRANTOR.UMD.EDU
University of Maryland, Computer Science Center - Systems Programming