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

Theodore (Alex) Evans alxevans at concentric.net
Fri Jan 10 23:39:30 EST 2014


On 01/10/2014 09:25 PM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
> OK, I did find people talking about jets that are simply on or off, but in
> that context the print head had a number of jets with the same color that
> combined for a pixel, the specific example was a "2400dpi" printer using
> basically 9600 on/off dots per inch.

Incidentally, a 4800x1200 dpi image at 48 bits per dot on an 8x10 area 
would take about 46 seconds to transmit assuming that you were getting 
the full bandwidth out of USB 2.0 connection.  This would certainly not 
allow one to reach anywhere near 18 ppm.




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