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Article #6217Re: other page description languages
From: Don Gillies
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1991 22:43
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1991 22:43
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There was another big problem with Xerox printers and interpress. Interpress would choke when you asked it to give you 100% of the resolution of your device. For instance, if you had a 600*600 bitmap, and wanted to print it in a 2" by 2" square on the page, interpress would choke. It could not keep up with the print engine. You would get white streaks across the page, known as "band overruns". This happened to me several times on the Xerox Raven printer. This was an example of a larger flaw in design philosophy: It must produce fast results, not good results. Sacrificing quality for quantity, in retrospect, was the wrong thing to do with a laser printer. Don Gillies | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign gillies@cs.uiuc.edu | Digital Computer Lab, 1304 W. Springfield, Urbana IL --
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