Re: parallel card

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In message   <19991012020232.17519.00000460@ng-fj1.aol.com>
supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) writes:

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> ...such a small difference does not matter for
> text based programs.

IIRC, and it's been a while since I've had a deskjet 500c,
one can select "external rendering" from the Harmonie
deskjet driver dialog. This causes Harmonie to send a
text stream to the printer (similar to an 8 bit program)
and the deskjet's internal font will be used. This is
fast with a serial connection but "lightning" fast with
a parallel card (I used the Q-Print II from Sequential
when I had the deskjet 500c).

Although you are limited to the fonts inside the deskjet
when you use "external rendering", you used to be able
to buy font cartridges for the printer.

Since I had the 500c which had both the serial and parallel
connection I tried both. The deskjet was about twice as fast
with text "external rendering" from AWGS word processor
using the parallel card, as I remember it.  For printing
anything other than straight text "internal rendering" had
to be used. The difference between serial and parallel
really showed up here, about 4 times a speed difference,
IIRC.

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Eric <chippys@earthlink.net>