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    Personal LW LS: Print Faster With LaserWriter 300 Driver (10/94)
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10/10/94
10/10/94
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    Printing seems to be faster when printing to a Personal LaserWriter LS using the original Personal LaserWriter LS driver as opposed to using the LaserWriter 300 v1.2 driver. Is there any information on why printing is slower with the PLW 300 driver verses the LS driver? Are there any other things we can try to make printing faster with the newer driver?

DISCUSSION


    The main difference between the two drivers is the ability of the LaserWriter 300 driver to print grayscale images. It is normally takes longer to print a grayscale image as opposed to a black & white image. If the LaserWriter 300 driver is set to black & white in the Print dialog, our tests showed it to be slightly faster than the Personal LaserWriter LS driver. Here are the results of our tests:

    Configuration
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    Power Macintosh 7100
    Personal LaserWriter LS
    System Software 7.1.2
    MacWrite II

    Test Results (in sec.)
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    TEXT TEXT and Graphics
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    PLW LS driver 0:42 0:55
    LW 300 v1.2 driver (gray) 0:41 1:48
    LW 300 v1.2 driver (b&w) 0:41 0:43


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