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Article #5659Re: Resetting printers
From: R+C Schneider
Date: Mon, 13 May 1991 19:17
Date: Mon, 13 May 1991 19:17
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>This seems reasonable, except that on all the laser >printers I deal with, there is a page counter maintained internally (and >printed for information on the start page). If this doesn't live in the >EEROM and is therefore updated on a page basis, where does it live? My >page counter is still going strong after 50000 pages! If you read the manual for the Apple LaserWriter, it says that the page count is stored in a special way to avoid wearing out the EEPROM. My guess is that the information is spread across multiple locations so that each is written less often. -- Roland Schneider University of Manitoba Electrical Engineering Winnipeg, Canada <sch@eeserv.ee.umanitoba.ca>
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!ic7!sch From: sch@ic7.EE.UManitoba.CA (R+C Schneider) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Resetting printers Message-ID: <1991May13.191734.12932@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Date: 13 May 91 19:17:34 GMT References: <1991May10.213352.27548@slhisc.uucp> Sender: news@ccu.umanitoba.ca Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada Lines: 15