HP Laserjet 1200 on USB

[ian j hart]

On Saturday 20 September 2003 4:03 pm, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> ian j hart <ianjhart at ntlworld.com> writes:
> > On Saturday 20 September 2003 2:36 pm, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> > > It currently takes about 5 minutes to transfer a 20MB file to my
> > > printer which has 64MB of memory.
> > > Printing starts within 5-10 seconds of the upload being completed.
> >
> > Q. How much of the 5 mins is data transfer, and how much is "printer
> > busy" (rendering)?
> > A. Nobody knows :)
>
> 20 MB in five minutes is very close to the maximum transfer rate
> across a paralell port (~80 kBps).
>
> DES

I had 1Mb/s in my head. That's ~50% faster than that.

Theoretical vs. real world?

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ian j hart

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