rant of the day

[Sean]

*lol* yeah go ahead and shoot me, that was an awesome rant..



On 21 Aug 2000, Ben Pfaff wrote:

> Sean <picasso@madflower.com> writes:
> 
> > I can easily see 448 meg of ram in a printer for high resolution CMYK
> > process printing and a large harddrive.
> 
> Really?  Lessee, with 32-bit color that's a square image 10836
> pixels on a side, at 600 dpi that's an 18"x18" printout.  It
> supports up to 18"x12" output (or something close to that), so
> that's just barely on the edge of reality.  Hmm.
> 
> Anyway, bringing up facts to spoil a perfectly good rant is a
> shooting offense, or should be.
> 
> > Don't they have a 133mhz risc processor in them too?
> 
> I'm pretty sure it's 200 MHz actually.
> 
> > On unix the HP is pretty easy to set up because you just need to set up
> > the tcp/ip and your off to the races. You do want to make sure you have
> > the correct colour profiles installed of course for colour correctness,
> > and you need to match that up with the monitor. 
> 
> Which one?  There's only 13 of them in the lab, supposedly
> identical, and they've got visibly different color properties.
> 
> > I _thought_ the HP8550N had an external scsi port on it you
> > could connect external drives for fonts and images, but I could
> > be wrong, I know the old Apple ones do (oem'd from HP).
> 
> Is *that* what that funny-looking port on the Color LaserWriter
> 6/1200 is for?  Never would've guess.
> 
> > I think they also have a port for connecting directly to the
> > printer via scsi.
> 
> Maybe yours does; mine doesn't.
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