Re: HP Deskwriter 520

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

Michael Warner (Mikeal@rmci.net) wrote:
: Doede Boomsma wrote:

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


: 	A friend of mine has his hooked up to a Deskwriter C and it'll 
: print 4 pages a minute. His GS is at 10 mhz and he uses the program from 
: Seven Hills-Express GS. I'm looking at upgrsading to a 14 mhz + Zip GS.
: So that'd really print pretty fast.

Again, please note that an accelerator DOES NOT improve the baud rate
of the serial port.  It only improves the speed of rendering.

: 	As for the color another local GS user said HP has a color 
: upgrade available. HP is local for me so I'll find out that easily.

If I remember correctly, the color kit for HP costs about $45.

Tilghman