Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ihlpb!tainter
From: tainter@ihlpb.ATT.COM (Tainter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: DeskJet (a LaserJet in disguise)
Message-ID: <8636@ihlpb.ATT.COM>
Date: 27 Aug 88 22:52:50 GMT
References: <25.230BF78B@rubbs1.FIDONET.ORG> <167@obie.UUCP> <3725@polya.Stanford.EDU> <8625@ihlpb.ATT.COM> <3737@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: tainter@ihlpb.UUCP (55521-Tainter,J.A.)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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In article <3737@polya.Stanford.EDU> rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) writes:
>>Ever used a Macintosh laser printer, I got very used to 45-50 minutes
>>for a moderately simple graphic.

>Again, using what?  45 minutes a page?  That is simply unusable.
>Even full-page 300 dpi graphics shouldn't take more than a couple
>of minutes a page, absolute maximum.  I repeat, *what* *software*
>gives you such poor performance?

Adobe postscript, running on the laser printer (68000).

>-tom


--j.a.tainter