Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Laser speed
Message-ID: <1988@looking.UUCP>
Date: 29 Aug 88 08:45:35 GMT
References: <3758@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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In article <3758@polya.Stanford.EDU> rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) writes:
>PostScript engine is actually quite fast at rendering.  I say, if
>the interpreter is your bottleneck, either you are plenty fast
>(a minute a page or less) or your application is abusing PostScript.
>.....
>Maybe I'm spoiled.  But if I had a software package that took
>ten minutes to print a single page, I'd return it.  And buy
>something that works.
>-tom

I found this article quite funny.  The software I have always used
has always printed nicely formatted text at around 6 pages per minute.
(In this case, that is the speed of the LaserJet.)
While I would certainly toss anything that took several minutes to print
a page, I would also do that with anything that took a minute.  I find
it incredible that people put up with this sort of thing.

There's no reason you can't have nice typeset text as fast as the printer
can output it.  The only reason is badly written software that was never
tested properly for speed.  There's little excuse for that.

I guess none of you are contemplating buying the Panasonic laser partner
for the 11 pages per minute.  You wouldn't have anything to do with it.

-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473