Re: HP Deskwriter 520

[lesherjt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (John Lesher)]

Doede Boomsma (dboomsma@sci.kun.nl) wrote:
: John Lesher wrote:

: > get used to the fact that it takes about 8 minutes to print a page
: > due to the limit of 57.6 kbps of the serial port.
: >         I don't know if it does color; best check with HP.  If it
: > does color anywhere, it can do color on the IIgs.

: It's not the 57.6k limit. With a zip (I have one) the time will 
: reduce to about 3-4 mintus at 300 dpi. The GS its speed is
: the bottleneck. The same HP DeskWriter on my GS connects to my
: fathers powerbook, which process the print faster than the
: printer itself.

OK, I got that wrong:  without the 57.6 driver, printing takes 8 minutes.

: In other words: the GS is not fast enough to render all the
: information to catch up with the printer.