Re: [Sheflug] Printing speed

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 01:55:46PM -0500, Ross's Mail wrote:
> i've experienced the same with a directly connected printer.
> it prints slower under linux than winXX at any given resolution from the
> same machine.
> quality is also poor compared with winXX (blastfamy!!! but true)

	It doesn't matter whether it's remote or local, the speed is the
same, the quality is the same (i.e., POOR!). The main problem seems to
stem from the gs driver (cdj890 v1.3). There is some information on the
aladdin documentation about it (Devices.html), but to cut it short,
printing in 600 dpi is slow, the colours won't be brilliant, and if you
just want a quick print, you are advised to use the cdj550 driver with
some options. Hardly ideal, but that seems to be how you can get speed
increases.

	The driver's homepage is at
	<http://www.erdw.ethz.ch/~bonk/hp850>

	It looks as if it might be worth compiling gs from source with
very hight optimisation parameters (a PITA, if you ask me...).
	José

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José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
					Radar & Communications Group
					Department of Electronic Engineering
					University of Sheffield UK
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