10 Nov
2012
10 Nov
'12
6:36 p.m.
On 11/10/2012 05:39 AM, Roger Pugh wrote:
This is also how the NeXT printer works. It's an SX engine. It's
surprisingly fast at rendering complex pages.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
> Well if
you could access the toner drum directly from the host cpu, I
> am sure you could emulate a generic mono-spaced printer like a TTY in
> 16K including the printer fonts.
There was a laserprinter available for i think the Atari ST (or later
model) that did away with the processor and and used the atari. This
cut the cost of the printer down to about 1000 pounds/dollars which was
very cheap in its time, esp when compared to the apple laser.. I think
it was a canon engine.