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Article #2755Re: looking for OEM supplier of Laser Printer w/ SCSI interface
From: Paul Evan Matz
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1990 19:00
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1990 19:00
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In article <1990Feb8.213511.23705@zardoz.cpd.com> neil@uninet.cpd.com (Neil Gorsuch) writes: > >Why not use our SCSI to serial/parallel interface and pick whichever >laser printer that you want? The interface is cheap, and that way, >you can be very cost effective in your choice of laser printers. > The main reason for interest in SCSI is for its speed. If you want to print full page raster images, if you use a centronics interface, you can count on a transfer rate of about 5K bytes/second, or about 3 minutes per page. (This is 8 by 10.5 inches at 300 dpi). If you try this with a serial connection, well, let's not talk about it. Now, clearly, if you eliminate white space, in favor of cursor control commands, there is a way to reduce the overall amount of data to transfer. But, unfortunately, what we want to print doesn't have alot of white space always. So that's why I'm not interested in your SCSI to serial/parallel interface. Thanks, anyway. _____________________________________________________________ |Regards, One Campus Drive | |Paul Matz PPG Biomedical Systems | |914-741-4685 Pleasantville, NY. 10570| ------------------------------------------------------------- path ppgbms!moe!paul@philabs.philips.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!prls!philabs!ppgbms!paul From: paul@ppgbms (Paul Evan Matz) Newsgroups: comp.periphs,comp.periphs.printers,comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: looking for OEM supplier of Laser Printer w/ SCSI interface Summary: I *specifically* want SCSI as an interface for speed Keywords: Laser SCSI Message-ID: <27446@ppgbms.UUCP> Date: 10 Feb 90 19:00:49 GMT References: <27290@ppgbms.UUCP> <1990Feb8.213511.23705@zardoz.cpd.com> Reply-To: paul@ppgbms.UUCP (Paul Evan Matz) Distribution: na Organization: PPG Biomedical Sys., Pleasantville, NY. Lines: 26