25 Jul
2006
25 Jul
'06
11:19 p.m.
On 7/26/06, Don Y <dgy at dakotacom.net> wrote:
Ethan Dicks wrote:
Certainly that's the easy way to do it... one could design a mechanism
that only advanced the color transfer films if they were printed to,
or to only advance them if, say, _any_ content was being printed (to
skip swaths of white), but that makes things more complicated and
certainly slower.
-ethan
It was an expensive printer (I was told it used
about $2 in consumables
per printed page) - it had three rolls of dye that spooled by no matter
what was being printed. Each spool did exactly so many pages then
ran out, even if you printed one pixel on a page. The advantage, I
guess, is a simplified mechanism and consistent printing.
You can't really "conserve" film based on the image
*content*. Usually, the film rides atop the paper
as it passes through the marking engine. It's not
like you can STOP the film's progress while the paper
continues along.