Re: Printer

From	Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.acorn.misc
Subject	Re: Printer
Date	2012-03-19 14:15 +0000
Organization	Russell Hafter Holidays
Message-ID	<5272ee3edbsee.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> (permalink)
References	(3 earlier) <52727be2c4chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> <52728509b7dave@triffid.co.uk> <52728e1e81chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> <527292fe12tim@invalid.org.uk> <5272c2db45dave@triffid.co.uk>

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In article <5272c2db45dave@triffid.co.uk>, Dave Symes
<dave@triffid.co.uk> wrote:

> In article <527292fe12tim@invalid.org.uk>, Tim Hill
> <tim@invalid.org.uk> wrote:

> > In article <52728e1e81chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net>,
> > Chris Johnson <chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> wrote:

> > > In article <52728509b7dave@triffid.co.uk>, Dave Symes
> > >    <dave@triffid.co.uk> wrote:

> > > > The bottom line is obvious, If I have no way of
> > > > controlling the resolution with a PS driver, then
> > > > the PS driver is no use at all to us and I've been
> > > > wasting both my time and toner testing.

> > > Not wishing to prolong this, but I am a little
> > > puzzled. What type of documents are you printing that
> > > you wish to control the resolution? I have a PS laser
> > > printer, and the thought of resolution has never
> > > entered my head. Maybe its just having used laser
> > > printers at work for 30 years or more.

> > Unless you use a toner-saving program to generate
> > 'invisible holes' in bitmaps, I am unconvinced that
> > printing at lower resolutions saves toner.

> You carry on being unconvinced, and leave those of use
> doing it to see what we do see with our peepers. (I use a
> watchmakers Loupe).

I run a now fairly old and worn HP2100 which I shall be
looking to replace with a machine with an ethernet interface
once the current toner cartridge gets low.

Under Windows there are a number of resolution options
Printer Properties / Advanced Options, but I am not sure
that they actually do anything.

I find printing using a USB to Parallel cable somewhat dodgy
at the best of times (and utterly frustrating at the worst),
and the larger the PoScript files the exponentially greater
the chance of things going wrong.

So I have tried reducing the resolution / switching to
Economode in an attempt to reduce the size of the PoScript
file, but the effect on the file size was zero. But maybe
Post Script just does not work that way.

As to reducing the cost of consumables, new paper is only
ever used for documents for customers. There is always
enough junk mail or old no longer needed documents, all
printed on just one side of the paper (and often good
quality paper) around that does perfectly well for
everything else.

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Russell
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  Re: Printer Chris Johnson <chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> - 2012-03-18 13:16 +0000
    Re: Printer Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2012-03-18 16:11 +0000
      Re: Printer Chris Johnson <chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> - 2012-03-18 17:26 +0000
        Re: Printer Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2012-03-18 19:06 +0000
          Re: Printer Chris Johnson <chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> - 2012-03-18 20:45 +0000
            Re: Printer Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk> - 2012-03-18 21:39 +0000
              Re: Printer Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2012-03-19 06:21 +0000
                Re: Printer Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-19 14:23 +0100
                Re: Printer Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-03-19 14:15 +0000
                Re: Printer Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-19 18:53 +0100
                Re: Printer Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk> - 2012-03-22 14:12 +0000
                Re: Printer Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk> - 2012-03-22 14:08 +0000
              Re: Printer Chris Evans <chris@cjemicros.co.uk> - 2012-03-19 10:39 +0000
            Re: Printer Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2012-03-19 05:47 +0000
          Re: Printer Dave Higton <davehigton@dsl.pipex.com> - 2012-03-18 21:51 +0000
            Re: Printer Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2012-03-19 05:42 +0000
        Re: Printer Alan Calder <alan_calder@o2.co.uk> - 2012-03-19 12:58 +0000
          Re: Printer Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2012-03-19 19:21 +0000
            Re: Printer Alan Calder <alan_calder@o2.co.uk> - 2012-03-19 19:47 +0000
              Re: Printer Chris Johnson <chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> - 2012-03-19 20:46 +0000
              Re: Printer Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-03-19 22:31 +0000
                Re: Printer Alan Calder <alan_calder@o2.co.uk> - 2012-03-20 11:32 +0000
                Re: Printer Chris Evans <chris@cjemicros.co.uk> - 2012-03-20 13:26 +0000
                Re: Printer Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2012-03-20 16:20 +0100
                Re: Printer Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-03-20 16:05 +0000
                Printer Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-03-20 16:07 +0000
                Re: Printer Chris Evans <chris@cjemicros.co.uk> - 2012-03-20 17:29 +0000
            Re: Printer M Harding <riscos@mdharding.org.uk> - 2012-03-19 20:17 +0000
              Re: Printer Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2012-03-19 20:42 +0000
                Re: Printer M Harding <riscos@mdharding.org.uk> - 2012-03-19 21:37 +0000
                Re: Printer Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2012-03-20 07:08 +0000
                Re: Printer M Harding <riscos@mdharding.org.uk> - 2012-03-20 10:39 +0000
                Re: Printer Chris Evans <chris@cjemicros.co.uk> - 2012-03-20 13:14 +0000
                Re: Printer Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2012-03-20 19:07 +0000
                Re: Printer Chris Evans <chris@cjemicros.co.uk> - 2012-03-21 10:38 +0000
                Re: Printer Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2012-03-21 19:40 +0000
                Re: Printer Dave Higton <davehigton@dsl.pipex.com> - 2012-03-21 22:29 +0000
                Re: Printer Chris Evans <chris@cjemicros.co.uk> - 2012-03-22 17:13 +0000
                Re: Printer Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2012-03-22 19:01 +0000
                Re: Printer Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2012-03-23 07:33 +0000
                Re: Printer Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk> - 2012-03-22 20:34 +0000
                Re: Printer Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2012-03-23 12:05 +0100
                Re: Printer Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2012-03-23 12:08 +0100
                Re: Printer Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2012-03-23 11:39 +0000
    Re: Printer John Tytgat <this@is.invalid> - 2012-03-20 01:10 +0100
      Re: Printer Chris Johnson <chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> - 2012-03-20 11:05 +0000

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