[Sussex] CUPS Answers

[Tony Austin]

Geoff Teale said:
> I got the following response from the writer of the driver Tony
> asked about:
>

...snip...

>>For example, a simple text file may be encoded in PCL in 10 or 20 >kb.
> The
>>same file rasterized at 600 DPI on 8.5 x 11 paper would be:
>>
>>8.5 x 11 x 600 x 600 / 8 or 4.2 MB.  HP-RTL allows compression of the
>>data
>>so it will compress down somewhat but it depends on the content of >the
>>image.
>>
>>The printer stops between pages because it must buffer the entire HP-
>>RTL
>>file.
>
> --
> Geoff Teale
> Cmed Technology <gteale at cmedltd.com>
> Free Software Foundation <tealeg at members.fsf.org>
>
>

Thanks for that Geoff, at least it explains what is happening.  It does,
however, raise the question of why CUPS would choose to do things in this
apparently inefficient way instead of sending the small PCL file to the
printer for decoding?

Regards.

Tony Austin
Gigaday Computing Limited
http://www.gigaday.com
tony at gigaday.com



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