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- From: uljff3@guest.arnes.si (Jernej Pecjak)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Multiface 3 card info wanted
- Date: 5 Mar 1996 21:30:58 GMT
- Organization: Academic and Research Network of Slovenia
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- >>Hi:
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- >>I am interested in multiface 3 card. Is the printer port any faster than on
- >>a stock A4000/A12000? Will I be printing faster with it? Is the bottleneck
- >>in
- >>40Kb/sec gone? I have a HPLJ5MP and on A4000/A1200 the printing is soooo
- >>sloooww.
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- >>Thanx
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- >I recently purchased a MFC3 and immediately connected my printer to it
- >(although I got it for the improved serial ports ;) ). I have an HPLJ4 plus
- >the Postscript SIMM and 10MB of RAM hooked to my A4000/040 and 32MBFast + 2MB
- >Chip. I print my largest things from Pagestream which are catalog pages and
- >they are often 20- 30MB in size and I have not noticed an increase in speed
- >that I would think of as significant. Though I am using Postscript and that
- >could be the difference. I sometimes will create a Postscript file from
- >Pagestream instead of printing and then later copy that file to the printer
- >from a CLI and there is no speed difference there either that I could
- >percieve
- >(meaning I haven't got out the stop watch and timed it).
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- Ok, postscript printing is quite fast. But is the mouse pointer and the amiga
- still heavy duty blocking when the printer is getting the data? YOu must have
- noticed that phenomen on amiga parralel ports.
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- Jernej
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