appelbau@topaz.UUCP (03/23/87)
Here is a copy of a message I recieved from Art Morgan:
Memo Laser Printer Image Memory Requirements
Date 22 March 1987
>From Art Morgan
Project Gutenberg
Atari Corporation
To Marc Appelbaum
The horse's mouth that you refer to may actually be a
horse's ass :^). I believe the confusion stems from my
diagram of the Atari ST Desktop Publishing System, which
shows the Atari MEGA ST4 (4 meg) as the image-processing hub
of an IDEAL Atari desktop system.
In reality the memory requirements of a letter-size
page image is 954000 bytes, well under 1 meg. Here are the
memory requirements for the paper types supported by the
Atari SLM Laser Printer:
Paper Dimensions Memory
LETTER 2400 dots by 3180 lines 954000 bytes
LEGAL 2400 dots by 4080 lines 1224000 bytes
A4 2336 dots by 3386 lines 988712 bytes
B5 2016 dots by 2914 lines 734328 bytes
The above requirements do not apply to Dave Staugas'
printer emulator, which uses a character generator "banding"
technique requiring around 32 Kbytes of effective image
memory. That's why Dave's emulator can run on an Atari 520
or 1040 ST system.
I hope this clears the confusion. If you feel like
posting a correction to the net using this information,
please feel free to do so.
Best regards,
Art Morgan
Project Gutenberg
Atari Corporation
March 22, 1987
I think this should clear up all the confusion about the memory needed
for the Laser Printer. I would also like to thank Art once more.
--
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