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Article #5949

Re: Printing images much faster!

#5949
From: Vidiot
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 04:50
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In article <1992Dec14.161405.19667@midway.uchicago.edu> epc1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
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<After converting some X images to Postscript, I sent the Postscript files
<to the laser printer.  Each images took more than 10 minutes to print!
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<As I would like to do this consistently, is there anything I can do
<to speed the process of printing these images?  Can I convert
<to some other format which would speed up the printing of these images?
<Will PS2 do anything for me?  Can I get a faster printer?
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<What can I do???   I would like to get the printing time to under 2 minutes.

You are missing some important information...

What kind of PostScript printer is it and how is it attached to the computer?

If it is attached via the serial port, you are limited by the serial port
speed.  At 9600 baud, that is a possible maximum of 960 characters a second.
Pretty damn slow.  Changing to 38400 baud will improve that by a factor of 4.
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Subject: Re: Printing images much faster!
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Date: 16 Dec 92 04:50:52 GMT
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