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.
ns
_______________________________________________
Finale mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
I would think it would be higher in density, or at least equal in
density, but of course that would depend on the type of music, wouldn't it?
For instance, a page of a 20-staff orchestral score full of 16th notes,
plus lots of articulations and expressions would be more toner-intensive
than a typical page of text, while a lead-sheet spaced out to be 8
staves per page, only 4 bars per staff would be considerably less than a
page of text.
So I think it would vary widely for music, whereas a page of text is a
page of text, whether a novel, a scientific article, an essay. The only
time a page of text would be a lot less than average would be poetry or
drama.
--
David H. Bailey
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
_______________________________________________
Finale mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
