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From: srmaster@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Stephen Reis Master)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: DeskJet (a LaserJet in disguise)
Message-ID: <3549@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 27 Aug 88 20:58:43 GMT
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Reply-To: srmaster@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Stephen Reis Master)
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In article <3725@polya.Stanford.EDU> rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) writes:
>> Don't let the speed issue stop you!  It takes about 10-12 minutes for
>> the computer to lay out a 300x300 dpi page for the LaserJet
>Ten to twelve minutes to lay out a single page?  Using what?
>I can't believe anything is that slow, on any machine!  If
>-tom

10-12 minutes is perfectly reasonable for, say, a 512 by 512 greyscale
image being sent to a LaserWriter via PostScript.  The dithering, etc.
just takes a while.