hofbauer@csri.toronto.edu (John Hofbauer) (03/18/91)
A few people have posted their initial impressions of the Stylewriter but I haven't seen anything on the LS. Any comments/impressions out there?
yahnke@macc.wisc.edu (03/19/91)
In article <1991Mar17.123455.9416@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> hofbauer@csri.toronto.edu (John Hofbauer) writes: >A few people have posted their initial impressions of the Stylewriter >but I haven't seen anything on the LS. Any comments/impressions out >there? > Nice resolution but slower than a dog. The 4 ppm rate is only achieved when you're printing duplicates of the same page. Text only pages are spit out at around one every 40 seconds, and if you do background printing the speed drops to about one page per every four minutes. (This done on an SE/30, by the way...) I suspect either the TrueType fonts and the serial connection are to blame for this lackluster speed. Printing a TIFF image to the LS and to an NTX takes the same amount of time.
ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) (03/22/91)
In article <1991Mar18.162349.8488@macc.wisc.edu> yahnke@macc.wisc.edu writes: >In article <1991Mar17.123455.9416@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> >hofbauer@csri.toronto.edu (John Hofbauer) writes: >>A few people have posted their initial impressions of the Stylewriter >>but I haven't seen anything on the LS. Any comments/impressions out >>there? >> >Nice resolution but slower than a dog. The 4 ppm rate is only >achieved when you're printing duplicates of the same page. >Text only pages are spit out at around one every 40 seconds, >and if you do background printing the speed drops to about >one page per every four minutes. (This done on an SE/30, by the >way...) I was able to print about 2-3 ppm from my IIsi. The fastest way to print, I found, was to turn background printing on, then select "shut down" and click the option that says "finish printing before shutting down." This locks up the machine so that printing gets *all* the CPU time.