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From: pcb@usl.usl.edu (Peter C. Bahrs)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: MS Windows and HP Paintjet
Summary: Very Slow...
Message-ID: <503@usl.usl.edu>
Date: 30 Oct 88 04:18:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: usl.503
References: <482@usl.usl.edu> <102040005@hpcvlx.HP.COM>
Organization: CACS, Lafayette, LA, USA
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In article <102040005@hpcvlx.HP.COM>, bturner@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Bill Turner) writes:
> >>Does anyone know how to speed up the performance of the HP PaintJet??
> >
> > Yes. Rewrite the code in its ROM's so that is works efficiently.
> > The code was written by HP so that it was intentionally slow, so
> > as not to cut into the market for Laser-Jets. This process is called
> > "crippling" and has been developed to a high art by large computer
> > companies.
> 
> First, I seriously doubt this, and second, its quite close to libelous.
> 
> CAVEAT:  I haven't seen the PaintJet run, either direct from the PC or
> from Windows, so I can't say much about the performance.  I have seen
> other printers slowed down by poorly written drivers for MSW, but I
> don't know if this is really the problem.

We have used the TI 85x series of printers, Canon 8x series, HP Plotters: 7475..., various generic text printers, HP LaserJet, Epsons, Okidatas, et. al and
the PaintJet driver is indeed the slowest (the output is still great).
At times it appears to a naive user (or better put: a user familiar with the
above hardware) that the system has a problem due to the extended waiting
period.  Hmmm...?

The driver we are using is from Micrografx (not HP); the second release.
We have nothing but good things to say about MGFX and their products and
I would expect that they wouldn't intentionally 'slow' down the
performance of a system; what have they to gain.

?????
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