On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 10:34 am, Aron Smith wrote:
>> On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 23:07, Dale Huckeby wrote:
>>> On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, John Richard Smith wrote:
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>>>> So how about taking a 600dpi scanned file in either .pnm or
>>>> .jpg of an A4 colour page(it can be anything) then send that
>>>> file to printer at say 600dpi High quality, and note the time
>>>> from when the file first arrives at the spooling window (kde -
>>>> peripherals - printer - jobs) and you start to hear the printer
>>>> load the sheet of paper to completion of the printed page.
>>>>
>>>> I created a 600dpi scanned A4 colour page .jpg file of 3.4Mb,
>>>> in gimp, which took just over 3 minutes to print from the
>>>> moment the page loaded to final ejection from the Lexmark Z53
>>>> printer. That's a lot of numbercrunchingbut sets a big task to
>>>> compare performances with.
>>>>
>>>> How long would your Epson C82 take to process the same size and
>>>> type of file?
>>>
>>>   Sorry, don't know what an A4 color page is, nor how to create
>>> one.  If you'll tell me how to make one in gimp I'll do it but I
>>> don't know how meaningful the print comparison will be.  I don't
>>> use kde so will probably be printing from the command line. 
>>> (Anything that's not being printed from OOo, Opera, or Pine.)
>>
>> A4 is a little smaller than letter size.
>
> A4 is around 1/4" narrower, but around 3/4" longer

  Thanks all.  Guess it would have been clearer if I had said I don't
know what a _color page_ is (still!), or how to create it at ANY given
size (not just A4), or dpi resolution, or Mb size.  In short, I'm a
complete naif when it comes to using Gimp or any other graphics tool.

Dale


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