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In article <1990Feb12.043016.21137@zardoz.cpd.com> neil@uninet.UUCP (Neil Gorsuch) writes:
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>You must be looking at crummy centronics interfaces 8-).  Our LOW
>performance model goes past 30K bytes/second on it's parallel port
>(takes 30 seconds per page to transfer).  Our high performance model
>goes to the full Centronics spec of 250K bytes/second (4 seconds per
>page).  How much speed do you want 8-) ?  And for that matter, our
>serial ports will also do much better than 5K bytes per second, since
>they do arbitrary baud rates to much faster than 100K baud, but we
>haven't found many serial devices yet that can handle it 8-).

That's right.  Like there aren't any I've found EITHER!

The HP line stinks in this department.  The SERIAL interface, with a top
baud rate of 19200, can be almost as fast as the Centronics (and it STILL
Xoff's frequently at 19200!)  It won't handle 38,400, which would be real 
nice as our Equinox board can output at that rate (for real) with almost 
no load on the host CPU!

So who makes this laser printer with a REAL Centronics interface, or a REAL
serial interface?  We'd also like to find a reasonably-priced unit that can
handle the data fast enough to be workable; a page per minute for light
graphics, and over 5 minutes/page for full-page rasters just doesn't
cut it!

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