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JD wrote:

>>Assuming the same printer, is there any difference in speed
>>when printing text v/s printing an image of that text?
>
>That's poorly worded. My observation is that it is different
>but not significantly but then I only have 2 printers.

Depends on the printer, the text, and the connection speed.

If the printer is a dot-matrix type, then internal fonts are much
faster.

If the printer supports the text font internally, then Windows can
just send the ASCII, otherwise it sends a binary graphic.
If there is a full page of fine print, the bandwidth difference can be
enormous.
If you are connected over a 9600bps serial port, graphics can take
forever.

Or, are you asking about the difference between sending OldWorldGothic
text as font-text vs. a bmp?  Don't know for sure, but I'd bet  the
fonts use less bandwidth than a bmp. (Fonts are something MS has
control over and can optimize for, whereas they have no control over
your bmp files and can only guess at what might optimize them.)