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HP DeskJet

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From: Tomas G. Rokicki
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 1988 17:49
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The problem isn't lack of RAM, it's poorly allocated RAM.  The
16K RAM they have they give entirely to the input buffer.  There
is no way to split this up between graphics and the input buffer.
If they would give you 8K of grapics memory and 8K of input
buffer, graphics prints would go twice as fast.

And that little RAM cartridge you can buy?  All that RAM goes to
downloaded fonts only.  With that memory used for graphics, bit
map dumps would go four times as fast.

If anyone is looking for the HP DeskJet SoftFonts information,
I just finished moving and dug up that information, so send me
your address and I'll send you a copy.  There are some
interesting limitations and some interesting power; for instance,
you really print text at 600 dpi horizontally . . .

-tom
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From: rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: HP DeskJet
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Date: 2 Sep 88 17:49:12 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
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