Well, maybe I should give that a try and find out... OK printing 11 copies of a page, one side only, and timing from when the first one hit the tray to the last one hitting the tray (10 copies with nothing else being done) was just under 20 second which is 30+ pages per minute. So they were not lying. Start up from sleep was about 15 seconds, or about 1/2 minute for 11 copies from the time I hit "OK". Definitely faster than the old printer...
-- graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" ----------------------------------- David Mann wrote: > On Jun 7, 2007, at 3:44 AM, graywolf wrote: > >> The thing is rated at 30 pages a minute. You will have noted that >> it only printed 10 pages a minute above. Three reasons for that: 1. >> duplex is a lot slower than one sided as the paper path for >> printing the second side is a lot longer than it is straight from >> the tray. 2. The printer slows down after a couple of minutes, >> apparently to keep the heat levels down. 3. They lie! > > IIRC the ppm ratings refer to multiple copies of the same page, so > the print engine only needs to render it once. > > Last year we got a cheap Brother HL-2020 which, surprisingly, will > quite happily work through a JetDirect box on the network. I was > also surprised at its speed but it does leave a bit of a curl in the > paper. We only have manual duplex though (and only from the Windows > machine). > > - Dave > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
