Re: The Postscript option and AppleTalk? (Re: parallel card)

[CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney)]

On 18 Oct 1999 03:04:08 GMT, supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:

>You are correct, but AppleTalk is usually paired with
>Postscript.  Since the printer does all the rendering,
>the printer's speed is the limiting factor in both parallel
>and AppleTalk.  No Postscript printer that I know of
>can outrun AppleTalk, so there's really no need for
>a parallel card on Postscript laser printers that support
>AppleTalk.

Actually there is a reason to use parallel instead of AppleTalk.
AppleTalk requires you to install more stuff into GS/OS so you lose
more hard drive space on your boot drive, boot times are longer, more
RAM is used after booting and AppleTalk eats a relatively large amount
of processor time dealing with interrupts.

I guess that could be considered more than one reason but you get the
idea.  :-)

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