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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)
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As quoted from <897@cbnewsj.ATT.COM> by mec@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (michael.e.connick):
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| 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
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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
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