jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) (07/13/89)
I have to totally agree with you. If it is true, then one have to spend FOUR DAYS to print his 200 page dissertation with a Deskwriter. By the way, is it strictly required to keep the limitation of the MAXIMUM of 50 pages/day for a Deskwriter? What will happen if more than, say, 100 pages are printed at once? Will it cause serious mechanical or electrical problems, or the Deskwriter will make dirty output, or what else? As a grad student who is planning to write dissertation on a Mac, it is very important question to be answered before buying a Deskwriter. I appreciate any comments on this matter. Jungyun -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 1 Jungyun Seo UUCP: uunet!cs.utexas.edu!seo 1 1 (512) 471-9573 ARPA: seo@cs.utexas.edu 1 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ =============================Respose follows=========================== Well, I'm reviewing the printer for a magazine, and I'll sure be beating the hell out of it, use wise, but I really think that this page count is way low for even personal users. I'm a writer, so maybe I don't qualify as a "personal" user, but even in non-writing tasks, I could easily print over 50 pages a day. Since the DW is rated at something less than or equal to 1 page per 8 minutes, maybe as low as 1 per 3, at 1 per 8, 50 pages takes ~ 8 hrs, at 1 per 3, ballpark 3 hours. Does this mean I can use the DW no more than 3 hours of the day? Absurd! -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffrey A. Sullivan | Senior Systems Programmer jas@venera.isi.edu | Information Sciences Institute jas@isi.edu DELPHI: JSULLIVAN | University of Southern California
mec@mtfmi.att.com (M.CONNICK) (07/14/89)
The monthly duty cycle of the DeskJet is 1500 copies. This works out to an average of 50 copies per day. If you're regularly exceeding 1500 copies per month, then the DeskJet is probably not the printer for you. Printing more than 50 copies in one day does not cause the DeskJet to explode. I've printed as many as 100 copies at 300 dpi in a single day. I don't print more than 1500 copies a month though. ----------------------------------------------------- Michael Connick att!mtfmi!mec 201-957-3057 AT&T Bell Labs MT 3F-113 (Dept. 79153)