Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!cwjcc!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: LaserJet IIP Caveat Message-ID: <1989Sep26.234641.11536@NCoast.ORG> Date: 26 Sep 89 23:46:41 GMT References: <1989Sep26.000014.24359@NCoast.ORG> <897@cbnewsj.ATT.COM> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: comp.sys.mac Distribution: comp.sys.mac Organization: North Coast Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, OH Lines: 28 As quoted from <897@cbnewsj.ATT.COM> by mec@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (michael.e.connick): +--------------- | In article <1989Sep26.000014.24359@NCoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) writes: | > Uh, Michael, may I remind you that laser printers, unlike ink-jet printers, | > are by nature *page* printers: they *must* print a complete page at a time. | > You can't "band" output without doing some kind of hackery like running the | | Uh, Brandon, may I remind YOU that the DeskJet and LaserJet printers | use the same PCL commmand language and logically work much the same | as far as the driver is concerned. In fact the MacPrint driver we use | with our DeskJet also works with all the LaserJet models as well. The | banding that I described is done with them as well. Of course the | nonsense about running paper through multiple times is completely | unnecessary with either the DeskJet or LaserJet! In addition, it also +--------------- What has that to do with it? Let me be a little more clear: the LaserJet won't print *anything* until it sees a control-L. Your driver can "band" all it wants; it won't have any effect. Unless you have seen a LaserJet feed a sheet an inch or so at a time? --I haven't, and I've seen a number of them in operation in a number of different environments. ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc allbery@NCoast.ORG uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu bsa@telotech.uucp, 161-7070 BALLBERY (MCI), ALLBERY (Delphi), B.ALLBERY (GEnie) Is that enough addresses for you? no? then: allbery@uunet.UU.NET (c.s.misc)