| From: | Neil Bothwick |
| Date: | 1 Aug 2000 at 10:39:38 |
| Subject: | Re: Canon can't |
Don Cox said,
> The point is that printing text as graphics is extremely slow. A printer
> should have a plain text mode.
It's just the manufacturers cost cutting. Rather than include the
firmware necessary for the text-to-bitmap conversion, they let the host
computer do all the work. That way they only have to write a driver.
> This problem is the same as the way PC users send emails in HTML -
> trying to be fancy when plain text is all that is needed.
This isn't trying to be fancy, it's offloading all the work onto the
CPU, as if it hasn't got enough to do when running Windows.
Neil
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