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From: gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: DeskJet questions.
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Date: 8 May 89 05:30:00 GMT
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> That is, I get performance of a ~2 second burst
> of very fast printing, then ~5 seconds of collecting data for the next
> pass at the printer.
>						-- Dave Taylor

Questions

(1) Do you use a 1 Mb Mac Plus?  With limited memory, the Mac composes
pages using horizontal "bands", and has to redraw the picture several
times, once for each band.  Your 2 second burst might be the band draw
time, and 5 seconds might be the time to redraw the next band in
memory.  In that case, with more memory you might never see the 5
second pause.  If you have more than 1Mb, then this probably isn't the
reason for the slowness.

(2) Has anyone used this printer with a Mac II?  Does it go faster?
Did the Mac II have more than 1Mb of memory?

(3) I heard it costs nearly 10c a page to print, when you figure in
paper costs, and the expensive ink cartridges.  Is this still true
with the Deskjet+?