[H-GEN] Laser Printer

Greg Black gjb at gbch.net
Fri Mar 19 00:11:16 EST 2004


On 2004-03-19, Robert Stanford wrote:
> Greg Black wrote:
> 
> >Well, it took 5.5 hours to print on my HP LaserJet 5MP, but the
> >result was fine.
> >
> >Interesting that gv could render it on screen (at a lower
> >resolution, of course) in around 70 seconds (on a Celeron-2200
> >with 1G of RAM).
> >
> Took about 30 seconds on my 5MP (great printer), using a P4-3.06.
> 
> I pasted above into a file then did
> lpr file.ps
> is that right or was I cheating ?

That's interesting -- one printer takes 5.5 hours and another of
the same model takes 30 seconds.  Is your printer standard or
does it have optional extras (e.g., more memory)?

Cheers, Greg




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