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From: William LeFebvre <phil@rice.arpa>

We have two imagen 8/300 printers, both exclusively on the ethernet
(that is, their only means of communication is the ethernet).  We are
quite happy with this.  Our previous laser printer was connected to our
VAX with a 9600 baud serial line.  Downloading fonts was a real pain.
We usually referred to it as the "9600 baud font downloading blues".
The ethernet Imagen wins in two respects on this:  the ethernet is much
faster than 9600 baud, and you don't have to download a whole font to
use it.

Both of our printers have pagereversal on by default.  It has been our
experience that, if the printer cannot fit all the pages in memory to
do the reversal, it will blow the reversal off and print out the pages
in the order it got them.  So, nothing is lost -- even with troff
output.  In other words, it doesn't hurt to turn on pagereversal.

The 8/300 Page Printer User's Manual has this to say:

pagereversal:
	...For a single copy of a document, requesting pagereversal on
	with pagecollation off is the same as just requesting
	pagecollation on.

pagecollation:
	...If memory is insufficient to store the entire job,
	pagecollation is ignored.

This is just another example of the Imagen software doing exactly what
you would expect and want it to do.  On the whole I have been very
impressed (oh, please ignore the pun) with the Imagen printers.  They
(almost) always do what I would expect them to.  Good job, Imagen!

			William LeFebvre
			Department of Computer Science
			Rice University
			<phil@Rice.arpa>
                        or, for the daring: <phil@Rice.edu>