Re: Any cheap postscript laser printers for linux ?

et472@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Black) writes:
I suspect it's the Postscript bit that slows it down, since I
recall the big lag was in processing the pages before printing.

It depends on the stuff you print and on the CPU of the printer. My
Laserjet 1200 has a slow CPU, and it's slow on printing most Web pages
as rendered by Mozilla (I guess all this dithering of colour bitmap
graphics to gray scale at 1200dpi is a bit much for the CPU, but the
results look great), but it's fast when I print papers generated with,
e.g., LaTeX, that contain text and vector graphics.

- anton
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