[H-GEN] Laser Printer

[Tony Melia]

Can I ask a dumb question - how the hell does a complex image like that only
take up 705 bytes of source??


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Tony Melia
Systems Engineer/Director
TM IT Consultancy Ltd Pty
tony.melia at tmitc.com.au 
Phone: 0407 173352
www.tmitc.com.au 
 

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[mailto:general-bounces at lists.humbug.org.au] On Behalf Of Jay
Sent: Friday, 19 March 2004 7:41 AM
To: Humbug - General
Subject: Re: [H-GEN] Laser Printer

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On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 23:51, Greg Black wrote:
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> On 2004-03-18, Jay wrote:
> > I ran it on a celeron 366 notebook 160MB ram in about 20 minutes or 
> > so with gv under kde3.2.1 whereas the actual printout took only 
> > about 5 minutes on a brother hl-1240 connected to an all linux network.
>
> The rendering with gv matches what I saw, allowing for machine 
> differences, but I don't believe the printer time -- did you send the 
> gv output to the printer, or did you send the actual PostScript 
> program to it?

I ran the test again to get more accurate numbers. Rendered in 9m31s under
gv 3.5.8/gs 6.51 embedded inside konqueror from where I printed with Ctrl+P
through kprinter without preview of course.

The print spooler showed only a file size of 1k (the actual file is 705
bytes) suggesting that the printer rendered it itself in only 6m38s.

Cheers

Johannes

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