[Coco] Printing on cheap crappy printers with a CoCo was Re: Printing on a Coco with modern printers.

[Theodore (Alex) Evans]

On 01/10/2014 08:52 PM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:

 > I actually spent a little time on Google prior to posting the 90MB
 > estimate.  I didn't find any printers claiming less than 24 bits per
 > pixel.  I did find some like this one:
 >
 > 
http://www.target.com/p/hp-deskjet-1055-inkjet-all-in-one-multifunction-printer-copier-scanner-j410e/-/A-12763402
 >
 > which claims 48bit depth and "up to" 4800x1200 dpi, for $50.   that's
 > a whopping 3 gigabytes per page!  They must be compressing data sent
 > over the wire quite a bit. I can't imagine even a modern PC printing
 > 3GB pages in an acceptable timeframe.  Anyway, 600dpi/24bit color was
 > quite a conservative estimate for a modern printer.

Great, except those are the figures for the scanner, not for the printer.