On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, John Richard Smith wrote:OK so that sounds interesting. Now the time taken to create the print file and send it complete to the printer is always going to be longer in linux with ghostscript employed than in windblows, that cannot be helped, the PCL5 to PCL3 conversion takes time, and in any case each individual computer is going to vary the time according to it's power to process etc.
that I wrote:
Don't know what the norm is. It's much faster than my Photo700, though.Epson is very Linux friendly. They support Linux probably better thanThank you Dale for your detailed experiences, these are the kind of personal experiences we all like to hear about.
any other printer. I've got a Stylus C82 that I'm very happy with. In
product reviews a few people complained about the noise the paperfeed makes, and it is definite but not bothersome in my opinion. What I noticed is
that it works. It's very definite and precise in feeding and positioning
the sheets, and mine has never jammed (in five or six months). I think
you'll find that the C82 (or probably any Epson; this is my second one)
will work very well with 9.1. That's what I'm running. Mandrake will know
what it is and configure it for you, although you can specify quality settings at various levels of detail and expertise (in printerdrake in mcc) if you wish. Mine cost about $100. Its quality is pretty impressive.
I scanned (on an Epson scanner!) and printed one of my niece's wedding
photos, and it was practically indistinguishable from the real thing.
I'm not in the market today for a new printer , but may well think about it in the not too distant future, if I did want one today, I'm coming round to the Idea of trying out an Epson myself, well, I've had a good experience with their Epson perfection 2450 scanner, and with testermonials like yours one is encouraged. You don't mention print speeds?
Print speed isn't that important to me (as long as it isn't interminable).
I use the printer at a high resolution setting, so when I print out drafts
of an article I'm working on (ie. in OOo), and eventually the final
version, it looks really nice. I'm just aesthetic that way. I like for
stuff I print out to look like print shop quality.
Okay, that wasn't very helpful, so I just did a quick test, printing the
same page in OpenOffice using different settings. The settings I chose from were Economy, Normal, High Quality, Very High Quality, and Photo, with a Grayscale version of each, for a total of ten settings. (These are for-
inexpert-eyes combinations of the larger array of settings you can choose from if you click on the Advanced tab.) The grayscales are slightly lighter, although it's not noticeable at the higher quality settings. It is noticeable for Economy Grayscale, which has a couple of lines that are lighter than the rest. Economy, Normal, and Normal Grayscale all look
pretty much the same, maybe identical to the average eye. I think Normal
Grayscale actually looks slightly better than Normal, a little harder-
edged. The time each takes to print one of a sample page, from the time
I press the Okay button till the copy slides out, is 18 seconds for
Economy Grayscale, 23 seconds for Economy, 28 seconds for Normal Grayscale,
62 seconds for Normal, about a minute and a half for High Quality Grayscale, and about 4 minutes for High Quality. Normal and High Quality
probably aren't distinguishable by the casual viewer, but held side by
side Normal is slightly thicker and muddier looking. Under a magnifying
glass the edges would be fuzzier. High Quality has a slighter thinner,
harder, sharp-edged printshop look. High Quality Grayscale is just a
little lighter. Normal Grayscale is actually hard to tell from High
Quality, so I might switch to that as my default. I didn't test Very
High Quality or Photo or their grayscales. By the way, the times above
are for the first page, which includes the time it takes for the program
to communicate with the printer. I just ran page 1 and 2 at Normal
Grayscale and the first page was out at 28 seconds and the second at 51,
so all subsequent pages should take about 23 seconds apiece.
HTH, Dale Huckeby
So how about taking a 600dpi scanned file in either .pnm or .jpg of an A4 colour page(it can be anything) then send that file to printer at say 600dpi High quality, and note the time from when the file first arrives at the spooling window (kde - peripherals - printer - jobs) and you start to hear the printer load the sheet of paper to completion of the printed page.
I created a 600dpi scanned A4 colour page .jpg file of 3.4Mb, in gimp, which took just over 3 minutes to print from the moment the page loaded to final ejection from the Lexmark Z53 printer. That's a lot of numbercrunchingbut sets a big task to compare performances with.
How long would your Epson C82 take to process the same size and type of file ?
John
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