[H-GEN] Laser Printer

[Greg Black]

On 2004-03-19, David Jericho wrote:
> Greg Black wrote:
> 
> >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)?
> 
> My first suspicion was that the Postscript isn't being fed directly to 
> the printer. It sounds as if the P4 at 3 Ghz is doing the grunt work, 
> and feeding PCL to the printer.

Actually, that would fit the other speed data we have, but it
didn't occur to me given that he said he just did "lpr file.ps"
which I would always have setup to dump the PostScript directly
to the printer -- I only use PostScript printers and so never
think about the squillion filter thingies that people without
them have to use.  Have to wait for more info ...

Cheers, Greg