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Article #713Re: What's a duty cycle?
From: henry
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1987 01:04
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1987 01:04
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> > I.e., what does "duty cycle" measure?
>
> I think that duty cycle is an estimate of how hard you can push your
> print engine and still have it perform optimally. But the estimate is
> purposefully a pessimistic one....
Be careful. Experience with the Canon LBP-CX engine does not generalize
to larger engines. The LBP-CX is famous for tolerating gross violations
of its duty-cycle rating. (There are people at LBL using it at TEN TIMES
the nominal 3000/month duty cycle.) On larger print engines, the duty
cycle rating apparently must be taken very seriously or your maintenance
bill will skyrocket and reliability will nosedive.
Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
{allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry
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