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Article #5295Re: LaserJet IIP Caveat
From: Larry Rosenstein
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1989 16:59
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1989 16:59
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In article <897@cbnewsj.ATT.COM> mec@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (michael.e.connick)
writes:
> goes without saying that with most laser printers you do NOT have to
> compose an entire page in the printer's memory before you're able to
> print out anything. I don't even think this is necessary with a
> Postscript printer, although I may be wrong about that case.
I think the important point for a laser printer is once the paper starts
going it can't be stopped. (That's what Brandon meant by being a page
printer.) Once the paper starts, you have to feed the image to the
printer on time, otherwise you would get gaps.
One easy way to do this is to build the page image in memory; then you are
assured that the image is available when needed. But you can also create
the image in bands, provided the next band is available when needed.
Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc.
Object Specialist
Internet: lsr@Apple.com UUCP: {nsc, sun}!apple!lsr
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!Apple.COM!lsr From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: LaserJet IIP Caveat Message-ID: <4372@internal.Apple.COM> Date: 26 Sep 89 16:59:01 GMT Sender: usenet@Apple.COM Distribution: comp.sys.mac Organization: Objects-R-Us, Apple Computer, Inc. Lines: 21 References: <1989Sep26.000014.24359@NCoast.ORG> <897@cbnewsj.ATT.COM>