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From: jantypas@ucrmath.UUCP (John Antypas)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Laserjet Questions
Message-ID: <405@ucrmath.UUCP>
Date: 10 Sep 88 06:20:01 GMT
Reply-To: jantypas@Soft21.Riverside.CA.US (John Antypas)
Organization: University of California, Riverside
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This may belong in laser-printers, but our news software doesn't new what
.EDU means so I figure this is the next best thing.

I have the task of writing a graphics package that will use the HP series of 
laser printers.  I'd like to be able to do a graphics image on the printer
at full (300 DPI) resolution.  According to my math, this means I have to
create a raster with 1M of space in it.  The question is this, how can create
a one megabyte raster in my machine, fill it and then send it to the laserjet?
The AT only has 1M of ram!  Is there a way to build the image in Laserjet
memory as I go rather than the AT?  In other words:

Do I?

	A) Build a 300 DPI (1M Ram) image in AT memory 
	   Transfer it to the laserjet

or 	B) Build the image into the laserjet memory?  How do I do this?
 
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