Hola Noel, In my experience page density for printed music should be close to 8% on average for orchestral music parts.
So expect to print about 2/3 of the rated page count of the toner. [Note: You can measure density using Photoshop, selecting all and applying the average plug-in. The level of grey obtained tells you about the density.] Hasta otra ocasión, muchacho. Javito. > Friend: > > It is fairly common for printer manufacturers, when stating the number > of copies one can expect to obtain from a toner cartridge, to specify a > standard density of printing, e.g., "the cartdridge will print xx,xxx > copies at five percent density". Does anyone have any information on > the density of music--what a typical density for a hymnal page, compared > to a choral octavo, compared to a piano score, compared to string > quartet, compared to a single instrumental part. > > In the event no one has any information on such comparisons, is anyone > aware of an inexpensive shareware program which would open a printer > file, and process it, calculating the density of coverage? > > I hypothesize that music is perhaps only 20 to 40 percent as dense as > text, that is, where a standard page of a text document might be five > percent density, that a page of music might be only one or two, and > therefore, the number of pages one could print from a single cartridge > might be significantly higher than the manufacturer's number. > > ns > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
