Re: What's a duty cycle?

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From: phil
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1987 18:25

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>Henry Spencer
> 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.)...

Then I submit that the published duty cycle of the LBP/CX is wrong!  If
indeed a figure called "the duty cycle" actually has meaning for other
print engines, and if in fact that figure is pretty "spot on", then
someone miscalculated the duty cycle for the LBP/CX, because most
everyone seems to agree that these little guys can be pushed way beyond
3000 pages/month.  How do laser-printer/copier manuafacturers decide on
this mysterious figure?  Why was the LBP/CX given the rating it was?
Why does it appear to be so wrong?

			William LeFebvre
			Department of Computer Science
			Rice University
			<phil@Rice.edu>

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