derek@gucis.OZ (Derek Austin) (06/16/86)
Someone here is about to set up a phototypesetting service for Macintosh
users using one of the Linotron phototypesetters. He is keen to be able
to give clients some idea of what they will be charged before the job
is done. He has heard that some pages can take 12 hours to process and
print (!) and, if this is true, he thought "time taken to process and
print" would be a reasonable way to charge for part of his service.
It seems to me that it should be possible to write a program that can
give a good estimate of processing time given any particular document.
Has anyone done something like this? Or, if anyone is working in the
real world, what is your charging structure? Have you experienced
documents that take many hours to print?
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