Re: [Sheflug] Printing speed

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 08:19:12AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> >>>>> "Jose" == Jose L Gomez Dans <j.l.gomez-dans [at] sheffield.ac.uk> writes:
> 
>     Jose> 	It looks as if it might be worth compiling gs from
>     Jose> source with very hight optimisation parameters (a PITA, if
>     Jose> you ask me...).
> 
> I would say not.
> 
> The hp850 series drivers are user-contributed and not very high
> quality.  Optimization of the driver code won't help, since the
> problem is not the CPU cycles, it's I/O: the files produced are huge.
> It just takes a long time to send them to the printer.

	Granted. However, that's what the driver's writer says. There's
a new beta version with some "speed improvements", whatever that might
mean.

	In fact, I have managed to speed things up considerably printing
using the dj550c driver with 3 bits per pixel. Again, this is not a
dramatic increase, but it's better than before.

> A better bet would be to try the uniprint driver.

	I'll look into that. I didn't know what it was, since it was
mentioned somewhere...

> Again, this comes down to proprietary interfaces.  Thanks, HP!  Don't
> we all wish Ghostscript were a proprietary product of Microsoft?

	:-)
	José
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José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
					Radar & Communications Group
					Department of Electronic Engineering
					University of Sheffield UK
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