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From: larry@csccat.UUCP (Larry Spence)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Benchmarking PS
Keywords: PostScript speed clones Adobe
Message-ID: <3448@csccat.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jan 90 22:36:58 GMT
References: <1755@tfd.UUCP> <10112@microsoft.UUCP>
Reply-To: larry@csccat.UUCP (Larry Spence)
Organization: Computer Support Corporation. Dallas,Texas
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In article <10112@microsoft.UUCP> gideony@microsoft.UUCP (Gideon YUVAL) writes:
>In article <1755@tfd.UUCP> geller@tfd.UUCP (David Geller) writes:
>>I'd like to test the performance of the following devices and would
>>like to solicit PS code samples, recommendations to perform my task.
>>
>>Thanks for your help. Of particular interest for me are benchmarking
>>pages, tests that can be exercised at the high resolutions of the
>>devices tests.
>
>Me too, please
>
>Thanks

Here's two references:

1)  Seybold Report on Desktop Publishing, September 11, 1989.  They ran a 
    VERY large number of imagesetters through the wringer, using several
    test files (one with lots of body text, another with halftones, lots
    of graphics, etc.).  I mentioned (several times previously) that you
    could possibly call Seybold and request copies of their test files.
    I don't know whether anyone has gotten hold of the files yet.

2)  The latest issue of MacWorld (Feb. '90) has an article "Going Beyond
    Lino: The Imagesetter Explosion," which references the Seybold article
    and partially summarizes some of their benchmark results.  For example:

For a FreeHand document with gradient fills, clipped areas, rotated type,
etc., which was color-separated, some times were:

Linotronic L200B (1270 dpi / 8 MB RAM)                         22:14
Agfa Compugraphic 9600-PS (1200 dpi / 8 MB RAM)                18:45
Linotronic L300  (1270 dpi / 8 MB RAM)                         17:06
Varityper 4300-P (1200 dpi / 12 MB RAM)                        16:14
Hyphen Pel Box 108S (1016 dpi / 16 MB RAM)                     10:52

The Hyphen hardware RIP blew all the others away on all three tests they
used.  The MacWorld article is pretty much a pre-digested, scaled down
version of the Seybold article, but I don't know if the MacWorld folks 
have the Seybold test files (I suspect not).

If someone gets hold of these benchmarks, please let us know whether they
are public-domain, or what one has to go through to get a copy.  Thanx.

-- 
Larry Spence
larry@csccat
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