Re: Postscript Printer Speed less than ratings

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From: John Hascall
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1989 03:11

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In article <372@timer1.UUCP> fritz@timer1.UUCP (fritz) writes:
}I have a NEC LC-890 with 1 Meg memory running in Postscript Batch mode. 
}at 19200 on a serial line.
 
}It takes approximately 60 seconds to print a 45K chart in this format...


     45 * 1024 / 1920 = 24 seconds just to get the data down the
     serial line (assuming the printer can actually accept data at
     19Kbaud without using flow-control).

John Hascall

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From: hascall@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall)
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Subject: Re: Postscript Printer Speed less than ratings
Keywords: Speed memory programming time timing
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Date: 11 Dec 89 03:11:17 GMT
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