[fa.laser-lovers] LaserWriter speed

laser-lovers@uw-beaver (08/15/85)

From: Rich Cohen <CMP.COHEN@UTEXAS-20.arpa>

There was a note about a DVI driver for the LaserWriter a while back that
quoted 3 pages/minute printing speed.  We have a little PostScript program
that runs on the LaserWriter and prints ASCII text files.  It produces
pages at around 3 pages/minute.  Sending straight ASCII text to the 
LaserWriter running in Diablo emulation mode produces pages at around
3 pages/minute.  All of these tests are for essentially full pages of
text.  So, my question is:  Has anyone run a LaserWriter faster than
3 pages/minute producing "average" pages of text?

(My measurements ignored the first page time, to avoid counting
font rasterization time.)

-- Rich
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laser-lovers@uw-beaver (08/25/85)

From: Neal Holtz <holtz%cascade.carleton.cdn%ubc.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa>

>        So, my question is:  Has anyone run a LaserWriter faster than
>   3 pages/minute producing "average" pages of text?

It looks as if some things will run faster than 3 pages/minute.
Our little PostScript code for printing ASCII files just did 21 pages of
the LaserPrep at 5.5 pages/minute (in 10pt Courier on 12pt). (this is
NOT the Diablo simulation mode).  The LaserPrep file is a "typical"
program listing -- a fair bit of whitespace on the right side.