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- From: th9708@meibm8.cen.uiuc.edu (Todd Lee Henderson)
- Subject: Re: Deskjet 550 faster than Deskjet Plus in Win3.1?
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 21:56:28 GMT
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- rkeel@fnugget.intel.com (William R Keel) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Dec16.061611.13847@cs.uoregon.edu> akm@atlantix.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal) writes:
- >>In article <syny.724448371@crux1.cit.cornell.edu> syny@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (R Craig Stevenson) writes:
- >>>I am contemplating upgrading from a Deskjet Plus to a Deskjet 550C.
- >>>
- >>>The question is: is the deskjet 550 faster or better at printing
- >>>non-color documents and graphics generated under windows 3.1? I know
- >>
- >>I seem to recall that my DJ 500 was faster than my roommate's DJ Plus.
- >>Roommate graduated (lucky stiff...) and moved away a while back, so I
- >>can't compare now. Assuming that the DJ550C is at least as fast as the
- >>DJ 500 in doing B&W, you should have a speed increase.
-
-
- >The difference is how the black "color" is handled. The DJ 500c mixed all of
- >it's colors to make black - this is good because people tend to use black most
- >of all. If the 500c had black as a "color" in the cartridge, you would be
- >replacing the whole thing only because the black color was out; The rest of
- >the colors would not get spent. The downside is the color black comes out
- >like a DARK navy blue...and (finally pertaining to this thread) is slower.
-
- If you know that your file only contains black, the 500c is set up to allow
- you to switch to an all black cartridge that gives you true black. The only
- time you get the sick black is when you must mix color and black.
-
- >How much? I don't know.
- >The 550c has two cartridge slots. 1 for black, the other for the color
- >cartridge...the advantages are obvious.
-
- I like the 550c much better because of this, although it has other advantages
- also.
-
- Todd
-
-
- >Reed
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