From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 17 03:22:36 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id DAA17968 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 17 Jun 1995 03:22:36 -0700 Received: from UUCP-GW.CC.UH.EDU (root@UUCP-GW.CC.UH.EDU [129.7.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id DAA17935 for ; Sat, 17 Jun 1995 03:22:30 -0700 Received: from Taronga.COM by UUCP-GW.CC.UH.EDU with UUCP id AA29948 (5.67a/IDA-1.5); Sat, 17 Jun 1995 05:01:18 -0500 Received: by bonkers.taronga.com (smail2.5p) id AA02011; 17 Jun 95 04:57:33 CDT (Sat) Received: (from peter@localhost) by bonkers.taronga.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id EAA02007; Sat, 17 Jun 1995 04:57:33 -0500 From: Peter da Silva Message-Id: <199506170957.EAA02007@bonkers.taronga.com> Subject: Re: printer recommendation? To: leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com (Marty Leisner) Date: Sat, 17 Jun 1995 04:57:33 -0500 (CDT) Cc: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw, mrcpu@cdsnet.net, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9506161929.AA16085@gnu.mc.xerox.com> from "Marty Leisner" at Jun 16, 95 12:29:52 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1003 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > In message <199506161817.NAA15275@bonkers.taronga.com>, you write: > >> You don't need anything faster than a parallel port. > >Unless you're printing big bitmapped images, in which case you do. > Like I said, only if the resolution of the image is the same as > the resolution of the printer... Nope. Only if the resolution of the image is the same as the resolution of the printer, or an integral multiple or divisor of it, or the postscript engine uses a variable duty cycle algorithm (a-la bresenham's), or you care about the overhead of the exchange and you don't have a printer port that does DMA or block transfers... > And parallel ports can go at about 100Kbytes/second...which is > about the speed on an ethernet that's doing anything things... You're used to overloaded ethernets. I routinely get 400k/s running backups at work, and it's not higher only because Amanda wires itself down to keep from soaking the net. Ethernet switches are nice, too. Ours has a 100 Mb/s backplane.