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- From: ems@work.wpd.sgi.com (Ed Sesek)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: PostScript Printer Info...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.170259.20491@odin.corp.sgi.com>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 17:02:59 GMT
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- In <C12tCD.ECF@news.cso.uiuc.edu> ercolessi@uimrl3.mrl.uiuc.edu (furio ercolessi) writes:
-
- >In article <v3abg74@twilight.wpd.sgi.com>, story@sgi.com (David (Duis) Story) writes:
- >|> [...]
- >|>Impressario includes a Display PostScript interpreter, and the 17D
- >|>printer is connected via SCSI-2, resulting in ultra-fast printing.
- >|>The renderer has been clocked at over a hundred pages per minute, even
- >|>on R3000 Indigos. Impressario also supports the HP LaserJet line and
- >|>DeskJet 500C in PCL4 mode, so you don't need to buy a postscript
- >|>cartridge for those printers. And Impressario is
- >|>software-upgradeable, so your hardware investment is protected.
-
- >Is there any benchmark available, comparing Impressario's renderer
- >with standard PostScript printers on a variety of tasks?
-
- We have run the "PostScript Processing speed test" P2ST on an
- R3000 Indigo and found it to be about 20 times faster than an
- Apple LaserWriter II NTX. On an R4000 Crimson, its about 40 times
- faster.
-
- >In particular, I have an application which overlaps circles to get
- >an image of a stack of balls (atoms, whatever). This is done just
- >by letting PostScript do the overlapping. When I send a stack
- >of ten thousand balls on an Apple Laserwriter IINT, it crunches
- >for half an hour or so, and I have a hard time in convincing people
- >that the printer is *not* stuck and everybody hates me ... is
- >Impressario faster in this kind of things?
-
- I am sure it is. If you are willing to send me a copy of your
- PostScript file, I will benchmark it for you and send you the
- results.
-
- Ed Sesek
- Silicon Graphics
- ems@sgi.com
-