rick@tripos.COM (Rick Moll) (04/19/91)
I have recently acquired a HP IIP laser printer. I have been very happy
with it, except for it's speed at printing graphics. I have been using
it in it's native PCL language; which I had hoped would give decent
graphics performance. It has however been very slow.
I have heard from one source that adding more memory will help to speed
it up. This doesn't make any intuitive sense to me. Has anyone else
noticed this? What can I do to speed things up?
My hardware configuration consists of a 386SX running ESIX SysV with a
parallel port connection to an HP IIP.
Thanks in advance of your help,
Rick Moll
uunet!tripos!ricktony@SDD.HP.COM (Tony Parkhurst) (04/20/91)
In article <9104191550.AA03519@crayola.cs.UMD.EDU>, rick@tripos.COM (Rick Moll) writes: |> I have recently acquired a HP IIP laser printer. I have been very happy |> with it, except for it's speed at printing graphics. I have been using |> it in it's native PCL language; which I had hoped would give decent |> graphics performance. It has however been very slow. Probably the best way to speed up graphics is to compress the graphics data using PCL compression methods. This reduces the heavy I/O load. If you cannot re-write the graphics driver to do compression, then the next best thing is to use a filter which reads PCL uncompressed, and outputs PCL compressed. I just happen to have done this already. The speedup for graphics printing is amazing. If there is enough interest, I may post this program to the net. -- Tony -- Tony Parkhurst ( tony@sdd.HP.COM ) "free people need no drug laws" -- James A. Parker