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In article <us008008-3107950112340001@ppp-nyc-3-13.ios.com>,
Phil Nasadowski <us008008@interramp.com> wrote:
>
>But my old Apple ][E printed from Appleworks almost instanly after it
>loaded the print stuff in - my Quadra can't do that - M$word needs a PPC
>or Pentium to run decently.
>...
>X (more like 100X) that of a ][e or a pet.  Why does it take forever for a
>printer to print today if todays machines are so much faster/wonderful.

Hmm, my computer is able to do ~25 pages per second when converting a
dvi file to postscript, and when I send that to the printer it prints
quickly.  Of course it take a little while for the printer to warm up,
but I'm willing to bet it's 12ppm at 600dpi can beat a stylewriter
hands down after it is going.

> My point is - with all the progress we've made - have we really
> gotten anywhere?

Yes.  The quality of output is *much* higher.  After I had used my
school's NeXT printer to print off a paper, I decided to keep using it
instead of going back to my old inkjet.  That kind of quality does
incur a penalty in processor use, and therefore speed in lower end
processors. Try showing two resumes to a manager, one from a
LaserWriter, one from an ImageWriter. I'm sure you get the point.


Jim
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