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From: bcripe@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Brian E. Cripe)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Laserjet Questions
Message-ID: <101870003@hpcvlx.HP.COM>
Date: 13 Sep 88 19:58:46 GMT
References: <405@ucrmath.UUCP>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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> If there is white space bounding the line, you can send curson positioning
> data, then send just the bits you need.  If there are lots of gaps (white)
> in the middle of the line, it might even save data transfer to break the
> line into parts and send the parts.

Something you should be aware of with tricks like this is that it could 
make adding support for other printers (even HP PCL printers) much more
difficult.  For example, if you sent data formatted as described above to
a DeskJet, it would probably take several hours to print a page.

	Brian Cripe
	Hewlett-Packard
	bcripe@hp-pcd