On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 23:07, Dale Huckeby wrote: > On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, John Richard Smith wrote: > > > Dale Huckeby wrote: > >> . . . 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. > > > > 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. > > 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? > > Sorry, don't know what an A4 color page is, nor how to create one. If you'll > tell me how to make one in gimp I'll do it but I don't know how meaningful the > print comparison will be. I don't use kde so will probably be printing from the > command line. (Anything that's not being printed from OOo, Opera, or Pine.) > > Dale A4 is a little smaller than letter size. > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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