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From: tynor@pyr.gatech.EDU (Steve Tynor)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Why is Display Postscript Fast when Printer Postscript is Slow?
Message-ID: <6953@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: 15 Dec 88 21:24:37 GMT
References: <1481@helios.ee.lbl.gov>
Reply-To: tynor@pyr.UUCP (Steve Tynor)
Organization: Georgia Tech Research Institute
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In article <1481@helios.ee.lbl.gov> forrest@ux1.lbl.gov (Jon Forrest) writes:
>I'd like to hear comments about how Display Postscript is fast
>enough to be used as a display system whereas Printer Postscript
>seems to be the bottleneck on many laser printers. Is my
>assumption about the cause of the bottleneck correct? What is
>missing from Display Postscript that makes it unsuitable to also
>be Printer Postscript? Does Display Postscript performance degrade
>when complicated images are displayed the way Printer Postscript
>does? What are the other differences that make the speed of
>Display Postscript so much better?

Could it have something to do with lower resolution (e.g. ~75 dot/inch vs.
~300)?

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