On Oct 21, 2005, at 6:04 PM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
Friend:
It is fairly common for printer manufacturers, when stating the number
of copies one can expect to obtain from a toner cartridge, to specify
a standard density of printing, e.g., "the cartdridge will print
xx,xxx copies at five percent density". Does anyone have any
information on the density of music--what a typical density for a
hymnal page, compared to a choral octavo, compared to a piano score,
compared to string quartet, compared to a single instrumental part.
In the event no one has any information on such comparisons, is anyone
aware of an inexpensive shareware program which would open a printer
file, and process it, calculating the density of coverage?
I hypothesize that music is perhaps only 20 to 40 percent as dense as
text, that is, where a standard page of a text document might be five
percent density, that a page of music might be only one or two, and
therefore, the number of pages one could print from a single cartridge
might be significantly higher than the manufacturer's number.
I use the JazzFont, which is very bold, and I have set all my line
thicknesses to quite a bit heavier than the Engraver Default, so I
suspect that I use MORE ink, not less, than a page of text. When I was
using inkjet cartridges, their short life seemed to indicate that my
music used about 50% MORE ink than plain text did. I am on a laser
printer now, which seems to last forever regardless. Engraver font
users mileage may vary.
Christopher
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