Though everything that Ted says is true, I must note that an HP 6L is not a PostScript printer. I have a 5L at home with 1 MB memory and can say that, under PCL, that that is enough memory to printer anything but the most complex graphics at 600 dpi and I haven't found a page yet that failed to print at 300 dpi.
Ted Harding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 18-Nov-97 G. Kapetanios wrote: > > I am thinking of bying a laser printer but I have one question. I will be > > printing some large documents with lots of graphics in them. The files > > will have the postscript format. For example one file I recently printed > > was 6.2 Mb. The cheapest laser printer is HP 6L with 1 Mb of memory. Does > > this mean I will not be able to print my files which are larger than 1 > > Mb? Or doesn't it matter as long as my computer memory is large enough ? > > Any hint will be appreciated. > With a PostScript printer what matters is that the printer memory is large > enough to hold the information required to compose 1 page, plus any > "global" PS code which the file requires. For a page consisting mainly of > text which only calls for the fonts that come with the printer, the page > requirement is only a few KB and there's no problem. [...] -- Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
