Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 10:37:25 +0200 (MET DST) From: "Joachim Koenig" <joachim@microdesk8.ee.uni-sb.de> To: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: printer recommendation? Message-ID: <9506160837.AA23198@microdesk8.ee.uni-sb.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950616152318.212B-100000@aries> from "Brian Tao" at Jun 16, 95 03:24:50 pm
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Brian Tao wrote: > THe 4MP comes with the JetDirect interface built-in and has a >zillion different serial, parallel and network connectors. You should >be able to get it for less than US$2000 (with 6 megs RAM). It's the 4Mplus, not the 4MP that comes with the jetdirect card. The 4MP is not available any more and replaced by the newer 5MP model. The 5MP is also a bit cheaper (~1000$) as it only comes with 3MB RAM instead of 6. If one needs the speed of the printing engine, than Amancio should go for the 4Mplus which gives about 12 pages per minute. For about 500$ the printer can be made duplex. If the price plays a role, than the 5MP is the way to go, giving 6 ppm, but the memory seems to be a bit to small especially if halftone-printing is important. I have the 4P (without postscript) and for normal TeX-output (via dvips-> ghostscript->PCL), the processor speed is fast enough to get the 4 ppm the engine supports. But for pictures, I do not get more than 100 kB/sec, although the data path is faster (I've written a parallel port IEEE1284 driver which uses the parallel port FIFO of SMCs Superio chips, but was disappointed that tiger.ps [as PCL, 600KB] did not print faster than without the FIFO. The driver is not yet clean enough for publication 8-(, but for your information: it supports nibble/byte mode reverse data transfer over the standard parallel port to read printer status and configuration data). Joachim -- email: joachim@ee.uni-sb.de University of Saarland, Germany, Europe phone: +49 681 3023043 suffering should be creative, fax: 2678 should give birth to something good and lovely <Ende der Fahnenstange>
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